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Date of source: Sunday, September 16, 2007
The annual report of the State Department-affiliated U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom [USCIRF] on Egypt that was released on September 14, 2007 has created a lot of controversy within intellectual circles in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, May 30, 2005
In the beginning, the church had obtained a permission to build a service facility over a plot of 500 square meters it owned and surrounded with a mud brick wall. Part of the wall had fallen down due to several cracks and strong winds. The wall was not re-built due to rejection by the security...
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
The proposed constitutional amendments would benefit the Copts because it will introduce an article that stipulates citizenship as being a right of all Egyptians, regardless of their religion and color for the first time in Egyptian history.
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The report released by the US Commission for International Religious Freedom is considered by the Egyptian press to be one of the most critical reports by an American organization because it represents serious interference in Egyptian domestic affairs, especially in terms of education. Journalists...
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The visit of the US Commission on Religious Freedom to Egypt received the attention of almost all Egyptian press outlets. Many articles highlighted the difference between Egyptian and American approaches to the subject of religious freedom. Most of the authors who wrote on this subject reject the...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 2004
Press review based on Al- Usbūʿ, Al-Aḥrār, Al-Maydān, Al-Wafd and Ṣawt al-Azhar. The visit of the delegation of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom to Egypt has caused much controversy within Egyptian political and religious circles, with many considering it an unwanted...
Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2007
A few days ago, the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church decided to excommunicate a former teacher at the Orthodox Seminary, Dr. George Ḥabīb Bibāwī, due to a study in which he accused Pope Shenouda III of abandoning real Orthodox beliefs.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Sāmiḥ Fawzī comments on the media promoting sectarian strife.
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The US Commission for International Religious Freedom refused to issue a
report about its visit to Israel, which aimed at investigating the religious situation there. The Secretary
General
of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights considered this evidence of using the file of
religious...
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The Washington Post newspaper
published a statement directed from the Copts of Egypt to emigrant Copts. The statement stressed that Copts
in
Egypt are enjoying a good life and that the last three years witnessed the exertion of great efforts, on
the part
of the Egyptian government, to solve...
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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.