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Date of source: Sunday, March 23, 2025
Bishop Paula (Būla), the Archbishop of Tanta and its suburbs and the person responsible for personal status law within the Coptic Orthodox Church, confirmed that the new Personal Status Law for Christians has set the age of a minor to be under 21 years, instead of 18 years, as is the case in other...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Sara ʿAllām Shaltout worked as the Christian affairs editor for the newspaper al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ from 2015-2020, a position usually reserved for Egyptian Christians. The fact that she was entrusted with this position as a Muslim is a testament to her independent thought and objective journalism. In...
Date of source: Saturday, March 15, 2025
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church received at the Papal Residence in Cairo a delegation of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) led by Secretary-General Dr. Maximos Charakopoulos, and discussed a proposal on unifying the date of Easter celebrations among all Christians...
Date of source: Monday, March 10, 2025
The relationship between Pope Cyril VI and the late leader Gamāl ʿAbd el-Nāṣṣer, marked by affection and warmth, is depicted by Moḥammad Ḥassaneīn Heīkal in his book Autumn of Fury. Heīkal writes, “The relationship between Gamāl ʿAbd el-Nāṣṣer and Cyril VI was excellent; they had mutual admiration...
Date of source: Friday, March 7, 2025
A security source dismissed reports on social media that a young girl in the southern Egyptian governorate of Sūhāg has been kidnapped.
Date of source: Friday, March 7, 2025
Security forces, in cooperation with the Coptic Archbishopric in Sūhāg Governorate, southern Egypt, brought a Christian girl who reportedly disappeared on February 24, back to her family.
Date of source: Thursday, February 13, 2025
In light of successful endeavors by Egypt and Qatar to complete the ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip, coinciding with the beginning of the Christian pilgrimage season to Jerusalem, Copts are wondering about the possibility of making it this year after a ban in 2024.
Date of source: Sunday, February 23, 2025
Copts are currently preparing for the Great Lent in 2025, which this year starts several days before the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramaḍān, a rare coincidence that both Christian and Muslim communities are fasting at the same time.
Date of source: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Qummuṣ (Archpriest) Shārūbīm Ibrāhīm Misīḥa of Archangel Mikhā’īl Church in Sinnūris, al-Fayyūm diocese, presented a Master’s Degree thesis on the role of Copts in the building of the modern Egyptian state in the era of Muḥammad ʿAlī Pāshā (1805-1848)’ at the Coptic Orthodox Theological College in...
Date of source: Sunday, February 23, 2025
Egypt’s Catholic Church participated in the conclusion of the prayer week for Christian unity at the Coptic Orthodox Church in Old Cairo.
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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.