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Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Residents of al-Khusūs have confirmed that the majority of the Muslims arrested have no connection to the event and were arrested unjustly after security forces stormed their homes and threatened the families with weapons.
Maj. Gen. Mahmūd Yusrī, Director of al-Qalyubia Security Department, denied...
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2013
In what could be the largest Christian Egyptian gathering in an “Islamist era”, the Council of Egyptian Churches, which is headed by Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, begins its work on Monday, February 18 (Author not mentioned, al-Sabāh, Feb. 17, p. 11). Read original text in Arabic.
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...
Date of source: Monday, January 7, 2013
Under the title “The Coptic Evangelical and Orthodox Churches celebrate Christmas without the Muslim Brotherhood”, al-Wafd reports that both Egyptian Churches had received congratulatory phone call from President Mursī, while a number of public figures came personally to attend the Christmas masses...
Date of source: Monday, February 19, 2018
On Monday, Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria, awarded Nādiya ʿAbdu, Governess of Beheira [al-Biḥayrah], with a Coptic shield at the occasion of the inauguration of two churches, St. Makārīyūs al-Sakandarī and the Three Macarius Saints church, at St. Makārīūs al-Sakandarī Monastery at Mount al-...
Date of source: Monday, February 19, 2018
Today, Bishop Bakhūmīyūs, Metropolitan of Beheira [Biḥayrah] and Matrouh [Matrūḥ], head of the St. Makārīūs al-Sakandarī Monastery welcomed Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, at the monastery in Beheira. There, in the village al-Kiffaḥ, he inaugurated two...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
The simultaneous bombing of the churches in Alexandria and in Ṭanṭā shocked everyone who is aware of the evil plan to attack Egypt through murder. For the war against terrorism has been raging on in Sinai for years and the Egyptian army has been thoroughly outworn as a result.
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2016
Egypt's Christians celebrated today "Palm Sunday”, the second day of Holy Week within the 55 days of the Holy Fast. Palm Sunday marks the day on which Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem and was greeted by the people with palms and olives.
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2016
Al-Misrīyūn news website published a featured story on the ordeal of the renowned Egyptian Academic Dr.ʿImād Shāhīn, Professor at Harvard University, who faces death sentence back in his homeland.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 19, 2015
A Coptic family which converted to Islam demonstrated near the office of the Public Prosecutor. They claim that they were attacked by the police after revealing their conversion and then detained for refusing to return to Christianity. The family showed onlookers bruises and cuts left by the...
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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.