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Date of source: Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Najīb Jabrā’īl, a Coptic lawyer and the head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights and Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, met on Wednesday morning to discuss the deteriorating situation of the Clerical Council, and the increasing number of cases it is receiving – in its...
Date of source: Friday, June 10, 2011
Global church council delegation praised Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb's, Grand Shaykh, initiative 'Family House' and applying it in reality in cooperation with the Egyptian church to support national unity, face fitnah tā'ifīyah, and prevent religious fanaticism.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The hardline Islamists, blamed for attacks on Coptic churches, had already been accused of stoking religious strife since the uprising that ousted the former regime which had kept them in check for decades.
Many salafī clerics proscribe rebellions against Muslim rulers and shy away from democratic...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Why has the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces resorted to salafī shaykhs in reconciliation drives between Copts and Muslims, following sectarian clashes against a background of social disputes?
The Council was rather expected to seek the assistance of the Azhar, which advocates moderate Islam as...
Date of source: Sunday, April 10, 2011
Last Tuesday, a Muslim mob a few thousand strong gathered in front of Mar-Yuhanna (Saint John) church in al-Minya village of al-Qamādīr in Samallūt, some 240km south of Cairo, demanding that the church should be closed. They attacked the church and the Copts’ houses with stones and set on fire...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Michael Munīr, founder and president of the U.S. Copts Association, was in Tahrīr Square during the 25 Revolution and asked not to exaggerate in factional demands until the success of the revolution, then disappeared in the following 'Million' Revolution [where more than one million persons...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2011
Two opinion articles written by Midhat Qīlādah, executive director of the European Coptic Union and ‘Isām 'Abd Āllah 'Iskandar, Professor of Philosophy in Ain Shams University and a member of 25th revolution secretariat.
Qīlādah comments on an article written by author ‘Alā’ ‘Uraybī who wrote that...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2011
The author criticizes the statement made by expatriate Copts in two different articles in al-Wafd. He believes they have not changed their sectarian approach to developments in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, January 6, 2011
Security around churches has been tightened and extra police personnel deployed ahead of Coptic Christmas celebrations, which come just one week after the church bombing at Alexandria's Church of Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter.
Pope Shenouda III will lead the Christmas Mass as usual, with...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 4, 2011
This article in the Egyptian Mail tells the story of Ashraf Munīr, a 40-year-old man who survived the Two Saints Church attack.
He left the church a few seconds before the blast, just in time to see the bloody scene outside . In the article he describes the "hell-ish scene" he had to watch: parts...
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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.