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Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2012
Meanwhile, presidential candidate Khālid ‘Alī said that his electoral platform rests on the principle of enhancing social justice, fighting poverty, maintaining the free-of-charge education principle and making good use of all material and human resources available.
‘Alī said he will appoint three...
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2012
Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah and the spokemsan for the committee registering voters in the election of a new pope for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said the committee has been working for four days, adding the registration was closed on Friday due to recent calls to stage mass protests in...
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2012
The committee receiving applications for the new pope elections, in a four-hour meeting on Wednesday (May 9) under acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius, agreed to continue receiving papers of candidates to succeed Pope Shenouda III until the end of this month. [Ashraf Sādiq, al-Ahrām, May 11, p. 6] ...
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2012
The Cairo Court of Appeal on Thursday (May 10) set the July 2 session to start the trial of Michael ‘Ādil Najīb Faraj and Michael Mus’ad Shākir, aka Midhat Shākir on charges of involvement in the October 9, 2011 incidents outside the state radio & TV building in Maspero area that left dozens...
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2012
Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī, the head of the Coptic Evangelical Church in Egypt, said he would support a candidate who will put the nation’s interest as his top priority and separate between his religious affiliations and the homeland’s public good.
I would not refuse a pious president who is fair to all...
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said the Egyptian people are now free to choose their representatives like the case with the recent parliamentary elections and the forthcoming presidential elections, adding the people who can elect a president can as well sack him.
“We have no future...
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2012
‘Awā, in an interview to al-Mihwar channel on Wednesday (May 9), said if he won the presidency, he would do his best to implement the Islamic sharī’ah because it is “the umbrella that cover all segments of the Egyptian people”. [Muhammad Gharīb and Ibtisām Ta’lab, al-Misrī al-Yawm, May 11, p. 6] ...
Date of source: Thursday, April 5, 2012
Also in Asiut, a court sentenced a Coptic secondary student, Jamāl ‘Abduh Mas’ūd, who sparked sectarian trouble in the Upper Egyptian governorate, to three years in jail for disdaining Islam and publishing photos and images insulting religions. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 20] Read...
Date of source: Thursday, April 5, 2012
“There is absolutely no deal between the Brotherhood and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF),” said Shātir during a meeting with the trustees of the Islamic Legitimate Body of Rights and Reformation (ILBRR).
He added that a large portion of the interior ministry’s responsibilities must...
Date of source: Thursday, April 5, 2012
Also in Asiut, a court sentenced a Coptic secondary student, Jamāl ‘Abduh Mas’ūd, who sparked sectarian trouble in the Upper Egyptian governorate, to three years in jail for disdaining Islam and publishing photos and images insulting religions. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 20] Read...
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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.