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Date of source: Friday, March 23, 2012
Dr. Ahmad Kamāl Abū al-Majd, Vice-President of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), expressed his deep sorrow for the departure of his "friend”, Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III.
Abū al-Majd offered his condolences to the members of the Coptic Orthodox Holy Synod, and said that Pope...
Date of source: Friday, March 23, 2012
Ambassador Mujtaba Amani, who heads the Iranian affairs mission in Cairo, offered his condolences to Bishop Pachomius for Pope Shenouda’s death, expressing the will to continue the religious dialogue with the Coptic Church. [Author not mentioned, al-Jumhūrīyyah, March 23, 2012, p. 2] Read the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Possible presidential candidate Hamdīn Sabbāhī reiterated support for the implementation of the Islamic sharī'ah and maintaining the second article of the constitution, which, he said, respects all religions.
"The Islamic sharī'ah is one of compassion and tolerance and would never undermine the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Dr. Nājih Ibrāhīm, a member of the al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah (Islamic Group) Shūrá Council, said Islamists in Egypt suffer from some flaws about making more and more friends, adding Egyptians have to brush aside trivialities that take much of their time and show more interest in serious issues.
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Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2012
On the other hand, Bishop Bakhomius of al-Beheira, Matrouh, North of al-Tahrīr and the five western cities, said his archbishopric is now overseeing the preparation and restoration of houses of Coptic families approved to return to their homes in the village of Sharbāt after a session held by a...
Date of source: Saturday, February 18, 2012 to Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Elections of the executive committee for the general council of Apostolic Churches nationwide were finalized at the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) office in Itsā, al-Minya governorate, as Dr. Samīr Sādiq, pastor of the Apostolic Church in al-Tir’ah al-Būlāqīyah and...
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2012 to Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Sa'd al-Husaynī, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (JFP) executive office, said the era of the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) is dead for good and will never come back to life, asserting that there is no anti-Copt position by the Brotherhood.
Husaynī, during...
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
Security agencies on Wednesday (February 15) contained a sectarian fitnah in al-Ismā’īlīyah village in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minya, where Muslim and Christian local residents exchanged hurling stones after priests and more than 100 Copts entered two houses and turned them into two...
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
A statement issued by the general local council in Alexandria condemned the decisions made at the end of an ‘urfī meeting on al-‘Āmrīyah incidents.
The statement described the decisions as ones of “submission to the wishes of the assailants and inciters for vandalizing the property of some of the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
MP Marian Malāk forwarded a question in parliament over Mīt Bashār incidents, calling for investigating the circumstances that led to the demolition of a church fence and burning of a chamber inside the Christian house of worship.
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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.