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Date of source: 8 Jun 2023
Faraj Fūda was a renowned thinker whose books sparked large-scale controversy in the circles of intellectuals, clerics, and politicians, as well as the members of the al-Jamāʿa al-Islāmīya (The Islamic Group.)
He championed the cause of separating religions from the state. Opinions differed over...
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Date of source: 8 Jun 2023
Today is the 28th anniversary of the assassination of Egyptian thinker, Dr. Faraj Fūda. He was killed on June 8, 1992 over his opinions and studies, in which he refuted the ideologies of the extremist organizations and the Muslim Brotherhood group, and exposed their efforts to reach power in the...
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Date of source: 7 Aug 2023
A post on social media revealed that the books and works of late writer Nawāl al-Saʿdāwī were put on sale at a bookshop, which sparked a controversy over the rights of her heirs: a son and a daughter.
Dr. Mona Ḥilmī, the daughter of the late writer, said on her Facebook page that she was shocked by...
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Date of source: 8 Oct 2023
The Muslim Council of Elders, led by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, warned that the continued violations by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and the blessed al-Aqṣā Mosque could have grave consequences.
In a statement, the council urged the international...
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Date of source: 30 Sep 2023
On Saturday (September 30), the Heliopolis Evangelical Church celebrated its 100th anniversary in the presence of the President of the Evangelical Churches in Egypt, Andrēā Zakī, Chairman of the Synod of the Nile, Rāḍī ʿAṭallāh, and the church pastor, Yūsuf Samīr, as well as dignitaries of Egyptian...
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Date of source: 27 Sep 2023
As part of Egypt’s interest in building houses of worship in the New Republic and President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī’s keenness on strengthening the bonds of citizenship and coexistence, the Greek Orthodox Church has announced that a plot of land was appropriated for it in the New Administrative...
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Date of source: 27 Sep 2023
Political Islam groups never stop their fact-twisting, which can be seen in their claim that banning the ʿabāʾa (loose female Muslim gown) in primary and secondary schools in France is a kind of war on Islam!
The measures taken in France were with aim of prohibiting all religious aspects or signs...
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Date of source: 2 Oct 2023
Social media in Egypt has been rife with nonsense after a decision by the Ministry of Education to ban the niqāb (face veil) in schools at the beginning of the new academic year.
The decision also made the hijāb (Muslim headscarf) as optional for female students under the condition that it is...
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Date of source: 2 Oct 2023
A report titled ‘Story of a Homeland: Between Vision and Achievement’ reviewed Egypt’s efforts in the religious sphere during the past nine years.
As part of the quest for interfaith dialogue, al-Azhar and Egyptian churches continue to work together under the umbrella of the Egyptian Family House...
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Date of source: 30 Sep 2023
The U.S. State Department said in a new report that religious tolerance was a “hallmark of Morocco’s history.”
According to a report by the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, “Religious tolerance is a hallmark of Morocco’s history – from its welcoming of refugees...
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Date of source: 1 Oct 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs of the Coptic Orthodox Church said that participation in the forthcoming presidential election is a “strong and important patriotic act for all Egyptians,” adding that “The Holy Book taught us that ‘The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore, we his servants will arise and build...
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Date of source: 2 Oct 2023
Egypt has experienced security and stability during the past ten years, and the Copts of Egypt have experienced this first-hand as they have lived through a period of consolidation of rules of citizenship with the power of the law.
The 2014 Constitution has promoted citizenship in a very clear...
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Date of source: 1 Oct 2023
Bāqī Zakī Yūsuf, one of the most renowned major generals in the October 1973 war, was the mastermind behind opening loopholes within the earthen embankment known as the Bar Lev Line with the use of water pressure.
He worked on the High Dam from 1964 until 1967 in Aswān, where they used pressed...
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Date of source: 1 Oct 2023
Conference on Palestinian Detainees – Madrid (September 30 - October 1)
Remarks by Cornelis Hulsman, founding editor-in-chief of Arab-West Report, 1997-2022. Egypt.
I am grateful to Jozef Eltawil for introducing me to you and for the invitation to come to your conference in Madrid in support of...
Date of source: 29 Sep 2023
The Muslim Council of Elders is hosting a conference in Indonesia, chaired by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, to discuss the role of religions in confronting the negative impacts of climate change.
The event will be attended by 150 representatives of different faiths in Southeast...
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Date of source: 11 Sep 2023
Minister of Justice, ʿUmar Marwān, said that the new personal status law for both Muslims and Christians has been finalized, adding that the law for Christians is a “historic” one as it is the first of its kind in Egypt.
“In order to avoid any discrepancies or ambiguities about the Christians’...
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Date of source: 1 Oct 2023
On Sunday (October 1), Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church received Ambassador Nadā Darrāz, Egypt’s new consul in Chicago, and Ambassador Ḥosām al-Dīn ʿAlī, Egypt's new consul in Los Angeles, at the Papal Residence.
During the meeting, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark underlined...
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Date of source: 2 Sep 2023
In association with the Masār al-Khayr (Path of Benevolence) foundation for sustainable development, the Bible Society of Jordan announced the start of a campaign to hand out packages of stationery to more than 2,000 government school pupils in the provinces of al-Karak, Mādabā and Maʿān.
The first...
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Date of source: 22 Sep 2023
Qummus (Archpriest) ʿAbd al-Masīḥ Basīṭ of the Virgin Mary Church in Musṭurud said that Lord Jesus Christ did not make alcohol, but turned water into a wine that was not intoxicating.
Basīṭ was commenting on businessman Najīb Sāwīris’ reply to one of his followers on the X platform (formerly...
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Date of source: 27 Aug 2023
During a TV show, a heated debate occurred between Dr. Aḥmad Kirīma, a professor of comparative fiqh (jurisprudence) at al-Azhar University, and Shaykh Hānī al-Ṣālḥī, an Islamic preacher, after the Shaykh made statements that the Prophet Muḥammad was a salafī.
The preacher said this was proven by a...
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Date of source: 14 Sep 2023
The salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party said that it will be filing a lawsuit against the decision to ban the niqāb (face-covering veil) in Egyptian schools.
The Ministry of Education announced a decision regarding the specifications of school uniforms in schools, which included a ban on the niqāb as the...
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Date of source: 14 Sep 2023
It is something remarkable that the education minister’s decision to ban the niqāb (face-covering veil) in schools has neither sparked anger in clerics’ and salafīs’ circles nor was met with fierce criticism like the decision-taker feared it would in the past.
Perhaps there was some light...
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Date of source: 24 Sep 2023
Salafī groups have escalated pressures on the state and the education ministry over a recent decision to ban the niqāb in schools as the new academic year starts.
The decision is expected to be followed by others similar to it as the region is taking a stand against Salafī ideology in order to curb...
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Date of source: 17 Sep 2023
A decision to set up a new college teaching the Ḥanbalī fiqh (jurisprudence) at the World Islamic Sciences & Education University (W.I.S.E) in Jordan has raised many questions. While some view it as a plan to empty the Ḥanbalī fiqh from its content and make a new Salafism that is more appealing...
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Date of source: 23 Sep 2023
Journalist Ashraf Ḥilmī, who lives in Australia, denounced the return of salafī preacher Abū Islām on his privately owned TV channel al-Umma. Ḥilmī says that Abū Islām aims to resume his “dirty” war on Christianity and practice his takfīr on all believers.
Ḥilmī added that Abu Islām also insulted...
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Date of source: 18 Sep 2023
The Abrahamic Family House has announced its upcoming program of panel discussions and events on the themes of peaceful coexistence and the role of faith in fostering culture, inspiring the arts, and tackling global challenges.
The program will bring together a diverse group of experts including...
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Date of source: 7 Sep 2023
The al-Buḥayra and Maṭrūḥ Parish concluded the activities of the 10th Titan conference for the youth at the Virgin Mary and Martyr Abī Sayfayn Church at the district of ʿAbd al-Qādir, al-ʿĀmrīya, Alexandria.
According to a statement by the parish, the conference discussed topics such as the risks...
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Date of source: 25 Sep 2023
On Wednesday (September 27), Muslims worldwide are celebrating the al-Mūlid al-Nabawī (the Prophet’s Birthday), which falls on the 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awal, 1445 according to the Muslim Hijrī calendar.
Prime Minister Muṣṭafā Madbūlī issued a decision to have Thursday (September 28) as an official...
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Date of source: 23 Sep 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church inaugurated the Virgin Mary church, affiliated to the Central Cairo Churches Sector, in the Garden City district, on Saturday (September 23, 2023), after rejuvenation work there had been finalized.
The church opening ceremony, attended by 15 prelates...
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Date of source: 22 Sep 2023
In partnership with the Euro-Mediterranean Center for the Study of Islam, al-Qādirīya al-Bōdshīshīya Ṣūfī Order is convening the 18th edition of the World Ṣūfī Forum under the rubric, “Sufism and religious and patriotic values for the establishment of a comprehensive citizenship.”
The event is...
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Date of source: 12 Sep 2023
The Jesuit Fathers Monastery in Alexandria received Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
The Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark was received by Father Majdī Sayf the Jesuit, the regional representative of the Society of Jesus in Egypt, Father ʿĀdil Zakkā the Jesuit, the head of the...
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Date of source: 19 Sep 2023
Under the auspices of the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Ṣūfī Orders, Dr. ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Qaṣabī, the General Sheikhdom of the Ṣūfī Orders is holding a series of symposiums and lectures for ten days. Ten scholars will participate as part of the sheikhdom’s educational role for followers of Ṣūfī...
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Date of source: 10 Sep 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar and leader of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, criticized foreign interference in the internal affairs of countries, particularly Arab countries. He stated that this interference had the aim of turning countries into a flourishing market for arms trade,...
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Date of source: 11 Sep 2023
A member of the House of Representatives said that the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, has shed light on the Palestinian issue for the world to confront and address, describing the top Sunni cleric’s speech in a conference in Germany as “historic and important.”
Dr. Ṭayyīb delivered a...
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Date of source: 10 Sep 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, received the Iranian ambassador, Maḥmūd Farazandeh, at his residence in the German capital of Berlin.
During the meeting, Dr. Ṭayyīb said the Holy Qurʾān has warned against the division of Muslims —which can...
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Date of source: 11 Sep 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, said that the participation at the international peace forum in Berlin reflects al-Azhar’s keenness on keeping interfaith dialogue alive and opening up new channels of communication.
Dr. Ṭayyīb attended ‘The...
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Date of source: 10 Sep 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, met with German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on Sunday, September 10, in Berlin to discuss ways of fighting the growing Islamophobia in Europe and animosity against Islam and Muslims in general.
Dr....
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Date of source: 14 Sep 2023
The Coptic Catholic Church shows great interest in the youth sector by holding courses on future leaders and the empowerment of young people from all segments of society through the teaching of certain handicrafts.
Father Kyrillus Naẓīm, the official in charge of the Diakonia Development Office at...
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Date of source: 14 Sep 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church expressed solidarity with and prayers for Morocco and Libya, where devastating natural disasters have left people killed or wounded. He praised Egypt’s stance, which was supportive of “the brothers in this predicament.”
The pope made the statements...
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Date of source: 9 Sep 2023
Grand Muftī Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām said that the development of social, behavioral, and intellectual levels in Islamic societies has changed the patterns of communication within society, and that this includes religious discourse, which is part of the societal discourse in general.
“The institutions...
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Date of source: 12 Sep 2023
President of the Protestant Churches of Egypt, Dr. Andrēa Zakī, said the United Arab Emirates has become a haven that embraces the values of coexistence as well as a symbol of amity, peace, and religious tolerance in the Arab region.
“The Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS)...
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Date of source: 16 Sep 2023
For the first time in 70 years, since the July 23, 1952 revolution, the Jews of Egypt celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
Majda Hārūn, the head of the Jewish community in Egypt, delivered a speech on the occasion before dozens of the community members.
Most Jews had left Egypt after the...
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Date of source: 19 Sep 2023
A fatwa (religious edict) secretary at Dār al-Iftā’, Shaykh Muḥammad Kamāl, said that fasting on the day of the mūlid (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Birthday) is permissible from the perspective of the Islamic sharīʿa.
“There is no problem with fasting on the day of the mūlid because we seek God’s...
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Date of source: 19 Aug 2023
In one of his shows, U.S. comedian and actor Chris Rock, who was once hit by Will Smith during an Oscar awards ceremony, addressed the statements made by a U.S. police official regarding the killing of Afro-Americans by police gunfire.
The policeman had said that wrongdoers and violators amongst...
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Date of source: 9 Sep 2023
Lebanon’s Supreme Islamic Sharīʿa Council extended the tenure of Grand Muftī Shaykh ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Diryān for an additional five years. His term was supposed to expire in one and a half years, which is when he reaches the legal age of 73, but this extension has allowed him to stay in his post until...
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Date of source: 3 Sep 2023
Ben Ezra is one of the Egypt's oldest synagogues and was reopened by Prime Minister Muṣṭafā Madbūlī after more than two years of restoration work.
Archeologist Muḥammad ʿAbdo said that during the period of restoration, the Jewish house of worship was shut down due to the risk of the ceiling...
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Date of source: 7 Sep 2023
In the town of Shibīn al-Kōm in al-Minūfīya governorate, there is a store that sells the sweets of al-Mūlid al-Nabawī (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Birthday) that is owned by three Coptic brothers.
Their father was very fond of sweets and consequently decided to seek the help of his three sons in...
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Date of source: 9 Sep 2023
Under the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmed al-Ṭayyīb, the Muslim Council of Elders strongly condemned two terrorist attacks that took place in northeastern Mali, which left several people killed or wounded.
The council stated their “categorical rejection of terrorist actions that clash with the...
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Date of source: 7 Sep 2023
Al-Azhar’s faculty of Uṣūl al-Dīn (theology) in Ṭanṭā is holding the third international conference on the efforts of Islamic institutions in handling intellectual and social issues in today’s world.
The event will convene in association with the Islamic Research Academy under the auspices of the...
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Date of source: 8 Sep 2023
Governor of Asyūṭ, Maj. General ʿIṣām Saʿd al-Dīn, ignored all the requests presented by the Dayrūṭ and Ṣinbū Parish to get a license to rejuvenate the Anbā Karās Church, which was burnt down in April when a fire consumed the entirety of the wooden building.
Five months have passed since the fire...
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Date of source: 9 Sep 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmed al-Ṭayyīb, offered his sincerest condolences to King Moḥammed VI of Morocco and the Moroccan people after a deadly earthquake struck several provinces and cities in the North African country and left thousands of victims killed or wounded.
Al-Azhar expressed “full...
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Date of source: 6 Sep 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church urged young people to devote their energy to God and warned of extravagance and of affairs outside wedlock. He said, “Life is like a bank, where you get what you deposit.”
“The church is stressing the purity of the youth in observance of the...
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Date of source: 7 Sep 2023
Secretary-general of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), Priest Rifʿat Fikrī, said that President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī was transparent in his words and actions before and after he began his term. He explained that this could be seen in his repeated interest in the construction of churches...
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Date of source: 4 Sep 2023
On Monday (September 4), Dr. Sāmī Fawzī, Archbishop of the Province of Alexandria for the Episcopal/Anglican Church in Egypt, inaugurated the languages department at the Minūfīya Episcopal School.
Dr. Fawzī toured the eight languages department classes, in addition to science and computer labs. The...
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Date of source: 4 Sep 2023
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī was one of the greatest imāms of Egypt, known for his scholarly contributions to Islam, such as Tafsīr al-Jalālayn , in addition to other books related to the rules of the Qurʾān.
Suyūṭī was born in the southern Egyptian province of Asyūṭ in September 1445, corresponding with...
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Date of source: 16 Jun 2023
Followers of the top Ṣūfī cleric, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī, went in great numbers into the mountainous valley of Ḥumaythira, in the city of Marsā ʿAlam, to visit his mausoleum.
The celebrations are usually held annually at the end of the hijrī calendar month of Dhī al-Qiʿda or the beginning of Dhī...
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Date of source: 11 May 2023
Hundreds of followers of the different Ṣūfī Orders celebrated the mūlid (birthday anniversary) of the al-ʿĀrif Billāh al-Sayyid Aḥmed al-Badawī in squares near al-Aḥmedī Mosque in the city of Ṭanṭā, the capital of al-Gharbīya province.
The celebrations of the al-Mūlid al-Rajabī (the minor mūlid),...
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Date of source: 7 Sep 2023
On September 3, 2013, Amman hosted dozens of guests from all over the world upon an invitation from King ʿAbdullāh II of Jordan to attend the conference on challenges facing Arab Christians, in which the monarch stressed that, “Defending the Arab Christian identity is not a luxury, but a duty.”
In...
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Date of source: 16 Aug 2023
The Higher Presidential Committee of Churches Affairs in Palestine (HCC) urged the representatives and heads of churches, as well as the international community, to take whatever measures necessary to condemn Israel’s crimes and encroachments on the Christians’ sanctities and properties in...
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Date of source: 31 Aug 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs of the Coptic Orthodox Church resumed a series of short mass prayers that handled part of Chapter 30 of the Book of Deuteronomy and Chapters 11-20 from the Book of Numbers, referring to the short prayers the church performs after the Gregorian Mass, which are called “Asceticism for...
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Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
By: ncregister
CAIRO — Moderate Egyptians have spoken against the continuation of anti-Christian violence after a drive-by shooting targeted a wedding party at a Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo on Oct. 20.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 2, 2013
By: english.dohainstitute
The July 3 coup that removed Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi from power represents a pivotal moment in the history of the Muslim Brotherhood not just because of the coup’s implications for the organizational and political structure of the Brotherhood, but also because it happened just one year
Date of source: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By: The Hill
Conversations with senior Egyptian officials indicate that Washington should focus on preserving its strategically important geopolitical
interests, not on using aid suspensions to influence the country's domestic politics.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 19, 2013
By: Reuter site
CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday to commemorate the deaths of protesters killed
two years ago and call for reforms, with many in the crowd calling for the power of the security forces to be curbed.
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
By: Reuters.com
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - In Egypt's second city, medical
student Ahmed Nabil lives in fear that the police may come and
arrest him any day. As a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, he is
Date of source: Monday, June 11, 2012
By: isn.ethz
This paper analyzes the ‘Coptic question’ in contemporary debate, underlining the political relations between the Christian community and the political institutions of Egypt, its varied composition, the intra-communal cleavages or factionalism.
Date of source: Thursday, November 14, 2013
By: carnegieendowment
The Egyptian Orthodox Christian community—the Copts—has been the target of violence and discrimination since the 1970s and especially following the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak.
Date of source: Friday, October 18, 2013
By: firstpost
Cairo: Thousands of supporters of Egypt's deposed President Mohamed Mursi protested in Cairo
on Friday, shouting slogans against army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who removed him on
July 3.
Date of source: Thursday, November 14, 2013
By: blogs.cfr
When I heard that Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his colleague Sergei Shoigu, the defense minister, were to visit Cairo, I dusted off my copies of Mohammed Hassanein Heikal’s The Sphinx and the Commissar and Soviet Policy Toward the Middle East since 1970 by Robert O
Date of source: Friday, October 11, 2013
By: enca
CAIRO - Egyptian security forces failed to stop revenge attacks against Coptic Christians after a deadly crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in August, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 6, 2013
By: memri
On October 9, 2013, the U.S. administration announced a freeze of the economic aid and part of the
military aid to Egypt. The State Department said that following instructions from President Obama, it was
Date of source: Monday, December 2, 2013
By: gatestoneinstitute
The same month that Obama tried to wage war on behalf of the jihadi rebels in Syria (citing "human rights" concerns), some of the war's worst atrocities were committed against that nation's Christian minority, most notably in Ma'loula, an ancient Christian region where the inhabitants spoke Arama
Date of source: Monday, December 2, 2013
By: rightsidenews
"We shall come for you…you are polluting our religion." — Note apparently from al-Shebaab, Somalia
"It seems great crackdowns on churches and extraordinary waves of arrest of Iranian pastors and Christian converts have not been effective." — Mohabat News, Iran
Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
By: bpnews
CAIRO (BP) -- Islamic extremists and criminals are extorting Christians in Egyptian towns, while trouble brews over the country's new protest law and constitution.
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Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
By: AKI
Minya, 29 Nov. (AKI) - Three people were killed and several injured in clashes between minority Coptic Christians and Muslims in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya, daily Al-Ahram reported Friday.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
By: MENA
Security forces in Minya have arrested a correspondent working for an American TV channel, accusing him of inciting sectarian strife and broadcasting false news, state-owned news agency MENA reported.
Date of source: Thursday, December 5, 2013
By: cbn
Bishoy Armiya, Egypt's most famous Christian convert from Islam, has been arrested by national security forces.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
By: b.3cdn
This poll represents the third time since May 2013 that we have conducted a nationwide survey of Egyptian
public opinion. It has been a momentous and tumultuous time for Egypt. During this period our polling has
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
By: Reuters
Young Egyptian Islamists seeking a way to confront the military-led state are turning to the ideas of a radical ideologue who waged the same struggle half a century ago and later became a source of inspiration for al Qaeda.
Date of source: Saturday, November 23, 2013
By: El Youm El Sabaa
Political activists in Egypt vary according to gender. The male activist is unemployed, soft and effeminate, with long hair that is either braided or disheveled, and he wears a bracelet and a Palestinian keffiyeh.
Date of source: Friday, December 13, 2013
By: aina
Highlighting escalation of attacks on Egypt's Copts, speakers at a congressional hearing this week expressed concerns over the Muslim Brotherhood making Christians the scapegoat for the Islamist group's political downfall.
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
By: china.org.cn
Two people were killed and ten others wounded on Thursday in clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians in Menya governorate south of Cairo, state-run Ahram website reported.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 6, 2013
By: atlanticcouncil
With a popular referendum on Egypt's draft constitution expected in January, the final draft has been submitted to interim President Adly Mansour for his approval. The referendum is expected to take place in the first or second week of January.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 19, 2013
By: AP
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's revolutionary activists, relatively muted since the country's July coup, showed a new vigor Tuesday, scuffling with supporters of the military-backed government in Cairo's Tahrir Square and wrecking a state memorial dedicated to protesters killed in the country's nearly three
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
By: copts
The county’s corruption levels shows no improvement from its 2012 score.
Date of source: Thursday, December 12, 2013
By: Al-Masry Al-Youm
Muslim Brotherhood dissident Tariq Al-Beshbishy said many of the group’s leading members will announce the creation of the Confrontation Current next week, a group aiming to reconsider the ideas of the MB, especially as they relate to violence, and to confront the MB’s use of religion for politic
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
By: washingtoninstitute
Nearly five months after the uprising-cum-coup that ousted President Mohamed Morsy, Egypt is mostly calm.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 12, 2013
By: rightsidenews
"After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the street 'like prisoners of war,' before a Muslim woman offered them refuge." — Associated Press
Date of source: Monday, December 9, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
After a tumultuous five months since the military coup in Egypt removed democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi from power, the revolutionaries are slowly returni
Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
By: atlanticcouncil
The Egyptian people are not ready. So said Omar Suleiman, when he wanted to strip the Egyptian people of their right to choose who governs them, when they wanted to end the state of humiliation and disgrace they lived in under ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
By: atlanticcouncil
Egypt's interim Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawy has urged those who took to the streets on June 30 to also show their support by voting for the recently amended constitution. The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, a pro-Morsi coalition led by his Muslim Brotherhood movement, has said it rej
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
By: atlanticcouncil
While the Nour Party represented the second largest bloc in the Shura Council, it was critical of the council’s inability to fulfill its basic role.
Date of source: Thursday, December 5, 2013
By: atlanticcouncil
Rags and Tatters opens to a scene of shaky cell phone footage inside an Egyptian prison in 2011. You hear the voice of a man saying, “Please film this,” as you prepare to launch into an hour-and-a-half of moments that Egypt’s revolution forgot.
Date of source: Friday, December 13, 2013
By: yalibnan
Highlighting escalation of attacks on Egypt’s Copts, speakers at a congressional hearing this week expressed concerns over the Muslim Brotherhood making Christians the scapegoat for the Islamist group’s political downfall.
Date of source: Monday, December 9, 2013
By: cnbc
Egypt is on track for increased political stability, making it a good opportunity for potential investors, Egypt's foreign minister Nabil Fahmy told CNBC.
Date of source: Saturday, December 14, 2013
By: main.omanobserver
CAIRO — Egyptians will vote on a new constitution on January 14 and 15, pushing on with the army-backed government’s plan for transition back to democracy after its overthrow of elected President Mohamed Mursi.
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2013
By: Al-Masry Al-Youm
Minya Security department referred 28 supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsy to prosecution.
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Date of source: Thursday, December 5, 2013
By: jihadwatch
One of the things that the Brotherhood probably dislikes about the new constitution is that it will oblige parliament to regulate church construction “in a way that ensures that Christians perform their religious rites freely.”
Date of source: Monday, December 9, 2013
By: TripleCrisis
After the International Monetary Fund’s long support for tyranny, dictatorship and rampant corruption in Egypt, the last few weeks have witnessed the incongruous appearance of the two words, ‘social justice’, in official statements.
Copts Need Full Rights Under Egyptian Law After 'Centuries of Persecution,' Says Egyptian Journalist
Date of source: Sunday, November 24, 2013
By: christianpost
Dr. Abdel Halim Kandil, a prominent Egyptian journalist, expressed his rejection of a quota system for Copts and other religious minorities to ensure their representation in parliament that is being considered in the new draft of the country's constitution.
Date of source: Saturday, November 30, 2013
By: egyptindependent
Minya Security Director Osama Metwally ordered the arrest of 14 people accused of violent acts in clashes between Muslims and Copts in the villages of Badraman, Ebeid and Hawarta.
Date of source: Thursday, December 19, 2013
By: ABC News
An Egyptian criminal court convicted three Christians Saturday of killing a Muslim man, a judicial official and the state news agency said, in a dispute that that left nine people dead in some of this year's worst sectarian violence.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 11, 2013
By: euronews
In the Egyptian capital Cairo, the mood of the city is written on its walls.
Egypt’s street-art movement has enjoyed a new lease of life since the 2011 Revolution. Mystical, angry, hopeful or irreverent – many of these works draw inspiration from the art of ancient Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
By: catholicherald
Writing in the late 1960s, Aziz Atiya begins his magisterial account of the Coptic Church, in A History of Eastern Christianity with this reassuring assertion: “In our day, the Copts live everywhere side by side with their Muslim neighbours without discrimination, either political or rac
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
By: cathnews
Atiya continued: 'They enjoy their religious freedom, and their churches increase throughout Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, November 8, 2013
By: nation.co.ke
The 12-year-old boy and a man died in Cairo's southern Giza neighbourhood, MENA quoted emergency services as saying.
Date of source: Thursday, November 14, 2013
By: carnegieendowment
The Egyptian Orthodox Christian community—the Copts—has been the target of violence and discrimination since the 1970s and especially following the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak.
Date of source: Friday, December 6, 2013
By: atlanticcouncil
As the fifty-member committee tasked with amending the suspended 2012 Constitution has finished its work, criticism of the committee, its formation and its amended text have continued.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
By: atlanticcouncil
Prominent activist Ahmed Douma was arrested at his home in Cairo and taken to a police station on Tuesday morning, he said via Twitter.
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
By: ansamed
(ANSAmed) - CAIRO, NOVEMBER 29 - Four people died Friday in clashes between Christians and Muslims in a village in the Minya region in upper Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
By: christiantoday
Three months after the Egyptian Army liberated Delga from militant Muslims, Islamists and criminals are terrorizing Christians in other towns across Egypt, human rights activists said.
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2013
By: gulfnews
Cairo: An Egyptian Copt was sentenced Saturday to life in prison as 10 others got jail terms from six months to 15 years over sectarian deaths in April, judicial sources said.
Date of source: Friday, December 27, 2013
By: meforum
As the full ramification of the Muslim Brotherhood's year in power continues to be exposed, a new study by Al Azhar's Fatwa Committee dedicated to exploring the fatwas, or Islamic decrees, issued by the Brotherhood and Salafis -- the Islamists -- was recently published.
Date of source: Thursday, December 12, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
The Muslim Brotherhood is targeting Egyptian universities by creating chaos, which the Brotherhood failed to spread on Egypt’s streets. Yesterday [Dec.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
By: atlanticcouncil
With the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi on July 3, Egypt entered a new transitional phase, the country’s third in recent years.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 13, 2013
By: frontpagemag
The attacks on Egypt’s Coptic Christians and their churches that began in July on the heels of the popular June 30 Revolution — which saw the ousting of President Morsi and prompted the Muslim Brotherhood to scapegoat and incite violence against the Copts — became even more brutal in mid-August a
Date of source: Wednesday, October 30, 2013
By: capitalfm
Cairo, Egypt October 30- Egyptian authorities on Wednesday detained senior Muslim Brotherhood figure Essam al Erian, one of the last few leaders of the Islamist movement to have escaped a security crackdown, the interior ministry said.
Date of source: Saturday, December 14, 2013
By: AFP
Cairo — An Egyptian Copt was sentenced Saturday to life in prison as 10 others got jail terms from six months to 15 years over sectarian deaths in April, judicial sources said.
Date of source: Saturday, November 9, 2013
By: yourmiddleeast
To be clear, the Egyptian military does not aspire towards total control of the state, with all of the responsibilities entailed thereby—what they want, what they have always wanted, is to be beyond accountability to the civilian population, to have their budget immune to external oversight or
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.