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Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2012
Shātir, in a report published The Washington Post’s David Ignatius on Tuesday (June 12), expected tensions in Egypt if Shafīq wins the presidential election, adding Egypt has to smoothly move to a new system or expect the worst. [Sāmih Lāshīn, Muhammad Fū’ād and Rāmī Yāsīn, al-Ahrām, June 17, p. 9...
Date of source: Thursday, May 31, 2012
Meanwhile, Counselor Munsif Sulaymān, a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s General Millī Council, announced on Wednesday (May 30) the final list of candidates for the papal chair of Saint Mark, totaling 17, including seven bishops and 10 monks.
The list includes Bishop Yū’ānnis, Bishop Bīshūy...
Date of source: Thursday, May 31, 2012
Acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius affirmed that the church does not interfere in political affairs nor does it take sides with this or that candidate.
“Copts have cast their votes as Egyptian citizens. If anyone votes for a certain candidate, then it happened as citizens,” he said during a meeting...
Date of source: Thursday, May 31, 2012
“Reports asserted that the majority of Copts voted for Shafīq, ‘Amr Mūsá and Hamdīn Sabbāhī and a fewer number voted even for former MB member ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh as well as other presidential candidates with all their different political affiliations and ideologies,” the ECHR said in a...
Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said the top Sunnī establishment is always expressive of the people’s feelings and the nation’s conscience, adding the Azhar will support any president the people will choose freely and transparently.
“The Azhar is supporting any articles in the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Syndicate of Journalists council, in a meeting under Chairman Mamdūh al-Walī, denounced the recent attack on the freedom of the press by some deputies in the People’s Assembly and Shūrá Council, adding this attack only indicates there are some plans to undermine public freedoms, particularly...
Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2012
Meanwhile, officials in the communications ministry revealed that pornographic web sites could be acceded anyway even if any filters were installed to block them.
The officials made the remarks during a meeting of the People’s Assembly transport committee on Wednesday (May 16) as Dr. ‘Amr Badawī,...
Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2012
Two days after she was absent from her house, 20-year-old Christine, whose father reported missing since Monday (May 14), has turned out to have sought the help of Priest Damyan of Abu Jūy Church in al-Minya governorate, because she did not want to marry her cousin as her father wished.
Christine...
Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2012
As the Holy Synod is meeting soon under acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius to decide on bishops nominated for the papal chair of Saint Mark, signature-collecting campaigns of the so-called East Bells Union of Alexandria Churches intensified to reiterate rejection of the nomination of bishops who...
Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod on Wednesday (May 16) reiterated commitment to the 1957 statute on the election of a new patriarch in succession of Pope Shenouda III and approved the nominations committee’s decision to extend the deadline to Saturday (May 19) to receive applications for the...
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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.