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Date of source: Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Security forces have intensified their efforts to arrest the assailants on al-Warrāq Church. About 30 officers from the national and central security investigations units have listened to 120 testimonies from witnesses. The security team continued to search for the assailants in the Corniche area...
Date of source: Sunday, August 25, 2013
Copts in the Shūrá Council have requested a quota for Christians in the coming elections. Kamāl Sulaymān, an independent member of the Shūrá Council, stated that the individual system will benefit the Muslim Brotherhood and the former NDP member. Suzy Nāshid stated that the lists will allow the...
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2013
Coptic movements have welcomed the new article, but assured that it is important to draft a law conforming to the Constitution. Dr. Antwān ‘Adil, member of the Maspero Youth Union, stated that this requires a new law to regulate the building of new churches.
Dr. Sūzy Adlī, former member of the...
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
Coptic activists have announced a campaign to pressure the Constituent Assembly to adopt a Coptic quota of 15% in all the institutions of the state. The first step that was taken in this campaign is an online petition that was started and is directed at the Constituent Assembly urging it to adopt...
Date of source: Sunday, October 20, 2013
The Public Union of Copts for the Homeland has denounced the calls for a Coptic quota in the coming parliamentary elections. They also stated that those who call for a quota are those looking for personal gains (Amīrah Fathī, al-Wafd, Oct 20, p. 3). This article has no link online.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 4, 2013
The legal adviser of the Catholic Orthodox Church, Amir Ramzy, said that there is no clear representation of Christians in the assembly. He stated that important points have not been included in the draft amendments, including the claim to change the religion after reaching the legal age in order...
Date of source: Friday, May 9, 2014
Al- Sīsī’s statements in which he said he is “a Muslim who loves his religion” has angered the secularist movements and Coptic activists who stated that he should not have made such a statement.
Date of source: Friday, May 9, 2014
Pope Tawadros starts today an official visit to the Emirates in which he will meet state officials and will head the first mass for him in the Saint Antonios Church in Abu Dhabi.
Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
The “Coptic Scream” movement launched a campaign called “No to Brotherhoodization of Education”.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 7, 2014
The Maspero Youth Union is currently putting the final touches on the “Citizenship Document” in which they specified the problems that Copts are facing.
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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.