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Date of source: Sunday, September 18, 2011
A member of the Ministry of Justice, Hanīn 'Abd al-Masīh, was allegedly distributing a book about atheism in the Coptic Orthodox Church claiming that Orthodox Copts worship idols represented in the cross, saints, icons, bread, alcohol and clerics.
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Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2011
Three Coptic brothers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering their sister as well as her 5 years old son. The brothers also attempted to murder her husband and her daughter in what appears to be a sectarian hate crime.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A conference for "Al-'Azmia" methods condemns insulting the prophets.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 2010
The author reports the incidents of a Jewish families' departure, describing the feelings and emotions they reported having.
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2010
The article discusses the exclusion of Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses from the new personal status law for Christians.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Weekly al-Khamīs reports on page two on Thursday that the National Council for Human Rights is currently discussing a number of complaints submitted by many Bahā’īs, in which they ask for pressure to be applied to the government to allow them to document their marriages and provide them with...
Date of source: Monday, December 6, 2010
Advisor to the Azhar Grand Shaykh, Dr. Mahmūd ‘Azab, tells al-Dustūr that the Azhar Center for Dialogue welcomed relations with all religions, including all different sects of Islam, in order to work towards unifying the Islamic discourse and to correct any misconceptions about the religion.
He...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
"Bahaism in the View of Sharia and Law" is a recently-published book dealing with a judicial ruling in June, 1952 by Counselor ‘Alī ‘Alī Mansūr, who was then head of the Court of Administrative Justice.
The ruling nullified the marriage of a Bahā’ī man and woman and rejected the man's suit against...
Date of source: Saturday, November 20, 2010
Du‘ā’ talks about the mixed reactions amongst the ecclesial society regarding the annual report issued by the United States Department of State. The report heavily criticized religious freedom in Egypt because of the government’s alleged discrimination against Christians and Bahā’īs. The report was...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd, a leading Egyptian Qur'anic thinker, passed away in July at the age of 66. He had become a good friend of the Arab West Report over the years. In the first of a series of articles commemorating the life and work of Nasr Abū Zayd, Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman looks back on...
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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.