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33. Pope Shenouda allows bank interests and advises Copts not to eat pork because it causes diseases
Date of source: Friday, August 3, 2007
In his weekly sermon, Pope Shenouda urged Copts not to eat pork for health reasons and said that banks paying interest to depositors is Ḥalāl.
Date of source: Friday, August 3, 2007
A new Congress document was announced that showed the U.S. intentions to allocate special funds to Coptic organizations in Egypt. The American initiative sparked pretexts in Muslims and Christians alike as an attempt to American interference in Egyptian internal affairs.
Date of source: Friday, July 13, 2007
The article discusses the repercussions to the recent statements of Bishop Bisantī about the number of Copts living in Egypt. The bishop’s unofficial estimation raised the old, unanswered question about the reasons behind the government’s continuous refusal to declare the real number of the Coptic...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Bishop Bisantī of Ḥilwān and al-Ma‘sarah and one of the main references in the Coptic Orthodox Church asserted that the Coptic Orthodox Church has rejected all forms of foreign interference and has denied all allegations about the church’s intention to assign a successor to Pope Shenouda. Many...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2007
The first article of the Constitution affirms the principle of citizenship regardless of the number of Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Thursday, April 26, 2007
The Judiciary Administrative Court has ruled that Christians who converted to Islam are not allowed to re-convert to Christianity. The court refuses to allow 45 Christians to change the entry of religion on their identity cards and other official documentary into Christianity, but to leave Islam as...
Date of source: Saturday, April 7, 2007
Bilāl al-Dawī interviews Bishop Basantī asking him about the recent incidents in the church.
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In an unprecedented event in Egyptian cinema, Baheb al-Sima (I Love Cinema) portrays members of a Christian family as the protagonists in a film that deals with family relationships set in the 1960s. The film caused much controversy not only because it is the first film to show Christian as the...
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The religious dimension of the war on Iraq has been and still is the focus of articles covering the war. This is in addition to news items about Kurdish Islamic groups being attacked by the US and comments on fundamentalist Islam in the light of the war. For the first time, the role of the media or...
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The Criminal Court of Sohag gave its verdict in al-Kosheh case, in
which
57 Muslims and 39 Copts were accused. Ninety-two defendants were set free and four Muslim defendants were
sentenced to between one and ten years imprisonment. No one was convicted of murder, although 21 Christians
were...
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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.