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Date of source: Sunday, May 5, 2013
Bishop Yuhannā Qultah, Deputy Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church and President of the Middle East Council of Churches, commented on the mixing politics with religion in Egypt. He sees the recent fatwás issued by some Islamist scholars against Muslims greeting Copts at Easter as part of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Public Prosecutor ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd ordered immediate investigations into reports accusing the Dutch ambassador in Cairo of attempting to foment sectarian strife by providing his country with misinformation about the conditions of Copts in Egypt. [‘Umar al-Khūlī, al-Sabāh, Oct. 2, p. 3] Read...
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Date of source: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Differences between the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists over the constitution have taken a new turn after al-Nūr Party and the Building & Development Party called for amending Article II of the Constitution to clearly indicate that the Islamic sharī’ah is the main source of legislation while...
Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2012
Participants in a conference organized recently by the Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Churches (FMEEC) in the Lebanese capital Beirut called for all governments and organizations concerned to work hard to detect facts about what is going in the Middle East countries and enlighten the world...
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2012
Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, called for establishing a council for Egyptian churches to be tasked with negotiating with the new regime to achieve Copts’ demands, stressing unity of Christian denominations to seek solutions for Coptic problems, including the...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Bishop Mūsá has revealed that a meeting will soon be held between bishops of various Christian groups in the Middle East and members of the Middle East Council of Churches. The purpose will be to discuss the situation of Christians and churches in the region.
In statements to Rose al-Yūsuf...
Date of source: Saturday, November 13, 2010
During his weekly meeting at the ‘Abbāsiyyah Cathedral, Pope Shenouda III addressed a photographer wearing a t-shirt opposing Bishop Yu’annis and asked him to stay away from the bishop. The photographer, who has been involved in other similar controversies, is allegedly linked to Bishop Maximus. A...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
In an interview on the television program Manshette, the Pope denied claims of the Church being a "state within a state" calling it a "provoking" allegation and said that he prays for the forgiveness of anyone attacking his person during the Kamilia crisis. He said that all three Churches approve...
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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.