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Date of source: Monday, May 14, 2007
A Coptic husband spreads rumors about his wife and accuses her of adultery. He obliged his son to give false testimony against his mother, saying that she was married to a Muslim officer. The husband could thereby obtain a document from the church according to which he could marry again.
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2007
The author considers one-sided media reporting, and the inaccuracies that are frequently present in media publications and outlets in Egypt. He investigates the problems surrounding the issuance of Egyptian identity cards, and the potential sources of these problems.
Date of source: Saturday, April 21, 2007
Rumors spread about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s intention to prepare statistics about the number of Copts in Egypt. While clergymen denied the news, they asserted that the official declared number of Copts was wrong and inaccurate.
Date of source: Saturday, April 21, 2007
A professor at the Faculty of Philosophy wrote a book full of slander and defamation against Christianity: doctrine, theology, and clergy.
Date of source: Monday, April 23, 2007
A group calling itself the “Clergy Group,” has issued publications against leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Pope Shenouda III. It has urged Copts to oust the pope and replace him with the former bishop of Luxor, Bishop Ammonuis.
Date of source: Monday, April 16, 2007
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Copts’ permanent insistence that Copts are persecuted in Egypt caused Egyptian Copts to believe that they really are.
Therefore, any mere dispute between neighbors would transform into strife.
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2007
A Christian employee at the Civil Registry was accused of manipulating data to ignite sectarian strife after she wrote ’’Christian’’ on the identity card of a Coptic woman who had converted to Islam.
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2007
A student who underwent a sex-change operation is told by the president of the Azhar University that she is not allowed to return in order to finish her studies. The student intends to sue the Muftī for the fatwá he issued that defaming her reputation. She removed her Ḥijāb to prove to everyone...
Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2007
George Ḥabīb Bibāwīcomments on the decision of excommunicating him from the church.
Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2007
The Christian residents of ‘Azbah Hannā Ayūb in al-Minia governorate are warning of upcoming sectarian strife in the village similar to al-Kushh incidents due to the demolition of their houses and the seizure of a 20-qarat plot of land which they cultivated through the Agrarian Reform Office.
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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.