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Date of source: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Participants in the conference "The Church at the Crossroads 2025," held in the USA, issued a public document in which they expressed their response to the calls of Palestinian Christians to confront the war on Gaza. The statement was both a theological review and a humanitarian stance calling for...
Date of source: Saturday, February 3, 2018
On Saturday, Christians held their first Mass in the damaged Syriac Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in the city of Deīr ez-Zūr, eastern Syria, after years of interruption caused by battles and the presence of the Islamic State group.
Date of source: Friday, August 22, 2025
Prof. Dr. Jerry Pillay, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), strongly condemned Israel’s announced large-scale assault on Gaza City.
He stated, "Striking a densely populated area already suffering from blockade and restrictions on humanitarian aid constitutes a grave violation...
Date of source: Saturday, August 9, 2025
This morning, Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II (Mār Ighnāṭiyūs Afrām al-Thānī), Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of the Syriac Orthodox Church, paid a fraternal visit to his brother, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I (al-Kāthūlīkūs Arām al-Awwal), Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 2025
The Coptic Orthodox Church is set to celebrate the birthday of Pope Shinūda III (Shenouda III), the 117th Pope of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, on August 3. Pope Shinūda III held one of the longest-serving papacies, occupying the papal chair from 1971 until 2012.
Date of source: Thursday, July 17, 2025
The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine (HCC) confirmed that the repeated attacks on churches and religious institutions in the Gaza Strip represent a direct and serious threat to the Christian presence in the Holy Land, demanding an immediate halt to these violations.
Date of source: Monday, May 5, 2025
Two Serbian TV channels and a news agency conducted interviews with Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church on Monday (May 5), during his current visit to Serbia, which is part of his pastoral visit of the Diocese of Central Europe.
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: 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: Sunday, March 2, 2025
This year, the 33rd edition of the Arab Christian Heritage Conference, organized by the Friends of Arab Christian Heritage Committee, was hosted at the Franciscan Cultural Center for Coptic Studies at St. Joseph’s Church in Downtown Cairo. Titled ‘Christian Legal Writings’, the two-day conference...
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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.