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Date of source: Tuesday, February 7, 2023
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) has officially accused the government of Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Aḥmed, of involvement in supporting a group of priests who defected from the church. The EOTC has urged the government in a statement to “offer an official apology for its collusion...
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Q: Do you know any case of a Sudanese refugee student going to a private primary or public secondary school in Egypt?
A: Yes, I know many of them. They are mostly South Sudanese. When they arrive here many apply to attend private Egyptian schools. I have a little girl in my house going to a private...
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SENA MEGERSA
Under United States law, a refugee is someone who is located outside of the United States, demonstrates that they were persecuted, or fear persecution due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. A lot of refugees are people under...
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Q: How do you feel about the Sudanese curriculum and the exams?
Edna: If you are from Sudan or South Sudan and you do the Sudanese exams, you can enter an Egyptian university, but if you are from another country, you cannot. They won’t allow you to enter with the Sudanese certificate. If you are...
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Senae, was born in 2007 in Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, he is a single child and a vegetarian since he is 10 years old. He is Coptic Orthodox and lives in Maadi with his mum and dad. The Principal of the CAWU Learning center, Peter Mathias, told me that he is extremely smart, and I could confirm...
Date of source: Saturday, March 12, 2022
On Saturday the Coptic Orthodox Church commemorated the death of Pope Cosmas III, their 58th Patriarch, who passed away on 3 Paremhat [Baramhāt], 932 CE.
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2022
Coptic emigration has gone through numerous stages for different reasons. “Coptic diaspora” (aqbāṭ al-mahjar) mainly refers to Coptic immigration to European countries, the US, and Australia. Waves of migration to these countries began in the early 1960s, and it was a common for Egyptian citizens...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Ambassador Aḥmad Ḥāfiẓ, Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that the negotiations that were held in Kinshasa on the 4th and 5th of April, with the aim to re-launch future negotiations over the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, failed to reach an agreement. Ḥāfiẓ said that Ethiopia...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2021
The UN Security Council encouraged Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia, at its meeting, to resume the negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) through African Union-led mediation, with a view to finalizing the text of a mutually binding and acceptable agreement on operating the dam as...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2021
Being a refugee in a country that is not one’s own is difficult. That person is neither equal to the citizens of the host country, nor are they able to return to their own country. The only effective way to support refugees in any country is through education, giving individual refugees the skills...
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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.