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Date of source: Friday, October 5, 2018
Rev. Dr. Andrīyya Zakī, Head of the Evangelical Church in Egypt, participated in marking the 3rd day of the One Family Conference hosted by the Apostolic Church under the patronage of Pastor Nāṣir Katkūt, General President of the Apostolic Churches in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2012
The position of the Coptic brothers who refused to meet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the U.S. interference in Egypt’s internal affairs is worthy of appreciation and respect.
Clinton does not want only to interfere in Egypt’s affairs and dictate the U.S. will on the Egyptian people...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Meanwhile, police forces in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minyā controlled sectarian unrest in the town of Abū Qurqās after an auto rickshaw, or tuk-tuk, driven by a Muslim hit a Christian man crossing the street.
Squabbles quickly developed into clashes in which Molotov cocktails and stones...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Sources said that members of the constitution-drafting panel nearly agreed on the cancellation of the 50% quota for farmers and workers in parliament and the Shūrá Council, the upper house of the Egyptian parliament. [Muhammad Sa’īd and Ahmad Mamdūh, Akhbār al-Yawm, July 7, p. 6] Read original text...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Political and partisan powers are this week discussing a draft constitution prepared by the leftist al-Tajammu’ (Grouping) Party, in which it relied on the 1954 Constitution, and would send it soon to the constituent assembly.
The proposed draft started with articles pertaining to the sharī’ah that...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Christian clergymen said a person’s integrity should be the criteria for any public position, while feminist leaders said the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist parties should not dictate on the president what to do. [Author Not Mentioned, Akhbār al-Yawm, July 7, p. 9] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2012
The president pledged to respect the concepts of citizenship, democracy, public and personal freedoms and property, free education and subsidy for bread and fuel.
He also promised to enhance the free media and freedoms of expression and innovation that respect Egypt’s original values, noting he...
Date of source: Saturday, June 23, 2012
On the other hand, judicial sources in the Higher Presidential Election Commission (HPEC) said the examination of challenges submitted by presidential candidate Ahmad Shafīq revealed that a large number of Copts received threats against voting for Shafīq and were prevented by force from going to...
Date of source: Saturday, January 5, 2013
NP: How do you perceive the current situation?
W.M.: I think that things will settle down, Allah willing, and that calm will return to the street. The coming stage will be very difficult; as a Shūrá Council member I sense that the challenges of improving educational and health systems will need...
Date of source: Saturday, April 21, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius discussed with some Coptic human rights activists and law experts the position of the church in the constitution-drafting panel and listened to their views on Egypt's new constitution.
Bishop Pachomius underlined the importance of...
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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.