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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, May 10, 2012
On the other hand, the Azhar reiterated rejection against drafting any laws pertaining to regulation of work inside it away from its scholars, shaykhs and old history, adding it refuses many of the amendments submitted by Salafī lawmaker ‘Alī Qatāmish, particularly stripping the Azhar of its status...
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah and chairman of the committee on registration of voters of a new patriarch, said he will meet with Bishop Pachomius on Thursday (May 10) to determine standards on voters from parishes abroad after a decision by the Holy Synod to allow them to cast their votes. [‘...
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2012
The 18-man committee receiving applications of candidates for the Saint Mark chair held a plenary meeting on Wednesday (May 9) under Bishop Pachomius to set criteria for sorting out the candidates.
The criteria include the gifts of guidance, education and fluency of foreign languages, good...
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Meanwhile, Bishop Pachomius said there is no one speaking on behalf of the church or claiming he represented Copts, adding no instructions were made to favor any of the candidates to the papal chair.
Priest Angelus, the secretary of Bishop Pachomius, denied reports claiming the acting patriarch’s...
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church held a series of meetings marked by confidentiality with some bishops of the Holy Synod to reach a guiding list of some presidential candidates to agree on one of them to be backed by the church in the forthcoming elections.
The church has set some...
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2012
“The justice I know is blindfolded, which means that there is no difference between Muslims and Christians, white people or black people and have-nots or well-off persons based on the Prophet Muhammad hadīth that people are all even like the teeth of a comb,” Khayr Allāh said during a meeting with...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 9, 2012
“I will stick to a civil state. If I won the presidency, I would choose civil state proponents as prime minister and vice president,” ‘Alī told a gathering of the Egypt Copts Coalition to introduce his platform, reiterating rejection of any religious or ethnic discrimination.
He said Egypt needs to...
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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.