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Date of source: Thursday, July 17, 2025
The Holy Family Church, belonging to the Latin Patriarchate and sheltering displaced persons in the center of the old town of Gaza, was bombed on Thursday morning. The attack resulted in multiple injuries, including the parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli, who had been regularly updating the...
Date of source: Monday, July 14, 2025
In a worrying escalation, Christian leaders have accused Israeli settlers of launching attacks on Christian religious sites in the West Bank. They describe these attacks as systematic violence, which is pushing some Christians to seriously consider emigrating from the occupied territory.
Date of source: Monday, June 23, 2025
Christian officials and religious figures and institutions in Jordan, Palestine, and Syria condemned the terrorist attack on the Church of Mār Eliās, which resulted in a violent explosion in the church located in al-Duwaylaʾ neighborhood, east of the capital Damascus. The attack, which occurred on...
Date of source: Thursday, July 3, 2025
Archbishop ʿAṭallah Ḥannā emphasized that love is the foundation of building nations, while racism, takfīrī ideology, and religious fanaticism bring only destruction and division. His remarks came as part of his strong condemnation of the terrorist attack that targeted the Church of Mār Eliās in...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Anbā Nicola, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Ṭanṭā, revealed the civil legal status of the Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, stating that the monastery has been known since ancient times, dating back to when Empress Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, built a church named...
Date of source: Sunday, June 8, 2025
On May 28th, 2025, the Ismāʿīliya appellate court in northern Egypt issued a controversial judgment related to a property dispute concerning St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. The judgment triggered strong reactions across the Greek Orthodox community and broader Christian world and...
Date of source: Friday, May 30, 2025
Following a wave of controversy over reports that authorities in Egypt's South Sinai governorate were seeking to confiscate the historic Saint Catherine Monastery, administratively affiliated with the Greek Orthodox Church, and seize its lands, President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī assured Greek Prime...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
The Ismāʿīlīya Court of Appeal, an affiliate of the Ṭūr Sinai Department, handed down a verdict on Wednesday (May 28) in the lawsuit filed over disputed land plots in the South Sinai governorate, granting the monks of Saint Catherine Monastery the right to use it and the archeological and religious...
Date of source: Friday, May 30, 2025
Foreign Minister Badr ʿAbd al-ʿĀṭī, during a meeting on Friday with European ambassadors accredited to Egypt, reviewed in detail the court ruling from May 28 regarding the lands surrounding Saint Catherine Monastery.
Date of source: Saturday, May 31, 2025
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr ʿAbd al-ʿĀṭī reiterated on Friday (May 30) Egypt’s full commitment to preserving Saint Catherine Monastery's unique and sacred religious status, stressing that this status will remain unchanged.
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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.