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Date of source: Friday, March 11, 2011
AWR's managing director Hānī Labīb visited Tahrīr square and closeby Maspero (Egyptian Television building) on March 11, 2011 where a large (uncounted) number of protestors and demonstrators from many governorates were: Muslims and Christians, young and old, and men and women came to unify their...
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2011
AWR was pleased to cooperate with Encounter, a program of ABC radio, Australia. For the interviews and transcript of ABC please check this address: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/encounter/stories/2011/3147651.htm#transcript
Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
The governor of Luxor and Evangelical Church leaders in the governorate agree on demolishing a church with the reopening of the archaeologically-significant Ramses Road.
The governor had visited the church and talked to people there. The governorate assigned a 2,000 square-meter land to build a...
38. One million persons in the streets .. and the mūlid’s rituals is not taken from Amon worshippers
Date of source: Monday, July 26, 2010
The people of Luxor celebrate the mūlid of al-'ārif Billāh Sīdī Abū al-Hajjāj al-Luqsurī, the founder of the hajjājī sūfī method. The rituals are taken from ancient Egypt. However, Abū al-Fadl Badrān, a scholar of the sūfī tradition, denies the existence of a similarity between the rituals of the...
Date of source: Monday, November 15, 2010
Over one million Copts and thousands of Muslims gathered at Mount Ruzayqāt for celebrations of Mār Girgis (Saint George) Day, which go on until November 17. Among the attendees is Governor of Luxor, Dr. Samīr Faraj, who declared a state of emergency to guarantee all the necessary services for the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 17, 2010
The head of the Syndicate of Lawyers, Hamdī Khalīfah, told al-Wafd that the Grand Shaykh wanted to attend the conference but he instead had to go on a business trip to Luxor. He also said that Pope Shenouda III could not attend the conference because he was sick and was getting ready to leave for...
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2010
This article reports on the recent sectarian incidents in Isnā and Bayyādyyah.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Around 600 people performed liturgy last Sunday in the courtyard of a school belonging to the church that was destroyed by a fire last week. Youannis Zakaria pointed out that this is the third church to be destroyed by a fire in the Diocese of Luxor, all three resulting from electrical short...
Date of source: Sunday, March 28, 2010
This article deals with the inhumane treatment reported by Pastor Zakariya of Luxor when demolition services came to his home and assaulted the pastor and his family. The area was marked for demolition, which was not an issue to the pastor or to the Evangelical Church. The issue lay in how the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Five Muslims are sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two Coptic men and the suspects in the case of killing a Coptic man in Dayrūt are declared innocent.
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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.