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Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2007
A conference of Arab youth was held in Cairo in August 2007. A Coptic delegation effectively participated.
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2007
The case of the Coptic born twins Mario and Andrew is escalating. The Coptic mother’s lawyer held a press conference in which he called on the UN to intervene to resolve the problem. The Coptic Orthodox Church has rejected any foreign interference in the case, even if it is from expatriate Copts,...
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: Thursday, July 5, 2007
The newspaper, ‘Ālam al-Mashāhīr, is attempting to establish itself as an alternative to Waṭanī newspaper,especially after the outbreak of disagreements between Wạtanī’s editors and Pope Shenouda.
Date of source: Thursday, July 5, 2007
Bishop Bisantī confessed that the church took a census of the number of Copts in Egypt, which revealed that their numbers exceed 15 million.
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2007
The author questions what sources Bishop Bisantī relied on when he revealed the results of a census taken to determine the number of Copts in Egypt, especially since the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics denied authorizing any census of the number of Christians in Egypt.
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.
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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.