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Date of source: Saturday, March 22, 2014
Former muftī of Egypt, Alī Gum’ah, has called upon Muslim youth to visit Jerusalem. This call stirred much contention in Egyptian political circles. Some political parties stated that the call is alien, ambiguous, not justified and considered a form of naturalization with ‘the Zionists’. Dr. Abd al...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Bishop Antony [Anṭūniyyūs], Archbishop of the Holy Land and the Near East, said that the crisis of Deir al-Sultan [Dayr al-Sulṭān] is to end soon, after having witnessed Israeli aggressions and abuses against the monks of the monastery.
Date of source: Thursday, November 1, 2018
Recently the General Congregation Council of the Coptic Orthodox Church [al-Majlis al-Milli] has resurfaced after Pope Tawāḍrūs II met with its members for discussing the attack on al-Sulṭān Monastery [Dayr al-Sulṭān] that took place last Sunday. Before the meeting, the Council issued a statement...
Date of source: Monday, May 26, 2014
Catholic Pope Francis called upon the Palestinian and Israeli presidents, Mahmūd Abāss and Shimon Peres to visit the Vatican to pray together for peace.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Presidential candidate Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā described Pope Shenouda as a “patriotic leader who has never bowed to pressures to get involved in sectarian strife from abroad or at home,” adding the pope has stood firmly in the face of divisions.
“Pope Shenouda’s stances were many, including...
Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2012
“Christians have the eagerness to visit holy places exactly like that eagerness felt by Muslims to perform pilgrimage to the Ka’bah,” according to an informed church source who did not want his name mentioned.
He denied that those trips to Jerusalem will have any effect on the decision adopted by...
Date of source: Friday, April 6, 2012
Bishop Bisantī of Helwan and al-Ma’sarah said that the Coptic Orthodox Church did not lift the ban on traveling to Jerusalem.
“The 61 Egyptian Copts who traveled will be forbidden from the reception of Holy Communion according to Pope Shenouda’s ordere. Bishop Bisantī said.
He added that a true...
Date of source: Friday, March 29, 2013
A number of 73 Copts left Cairo to Jerusalem City to celebrate Easter at the Church of the Resurrection. Sources said that not only Coptic Catholics traveled but also Orthodox regardless the decision of the late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III banning visiting Jerusalem during the Israeli...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The Azhar strongly denounces a Zionist officer for kicking the Holy Qur'ān and for abusing a number of Palestinian women who were preserving the Qur'ān in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque or Bayt al-Muqaddas in Jerusalem. The events were part of a series of gross violations against the people and...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Spokesman of President Mursī, Dr. Yāsir ꞌAlī, yesterday commented on statements delivered by President Mursī on Egyptian Christians describing them as “minorities”. Accusing media of delivering false reports, ꞌAlī argued that media have taken President Mursī’s statements out of context and that the...
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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.