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Date of source: Saturday, August 20, 2011
Muhammad 'Abd al-'Adāla, president of the Social Justice Party, presented a case to the State Council urging the government and the Supreme Judicial Council to announce Easter and Epiphany as national holiday. Currently the only official Christian holiday is Christmas.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Sources have revealed that two thirds of the seats in the people's council will be drawn from a proportional list, in order to represent all corners of society, and the other third will be individual candidates, in response to the outcry from political parties, when it was recently revealed that...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Ahmad Makkī, vice president of Egypt’s cassation court, in charge of developing the new judicial authority law, has announced that the project will provide for the abolition of state security prosecution and expand the mandate of the Supreme Judicial Council, in its appointment of advisors to the...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
A senior judge, 'Abd al-Mu'iz Ibrāhīm, the chairman of the higher elections commission, said that citizenship is the only recognized rule, adding all citizens are equal with no discrimination on the basis of religion or language.
Counselor Ibrāhīm, in an interview to al-Jumhūrīyah newspaper, said...
Date of source: Thursday, August 11, 2011
A source from St. Mark’s Cathedral told al-Dustūr that Pope Shenouda III has welcomed the draft of a law criminalizing religious discrimination, which was put forward by the National Commission for Justice and Peace two days ago.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Egypt has succeeded in ensuring that lack of respect for religions and beliefs as well as the act of insulting the prophets, is regarded as "incompatible" with freedom of expression.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Muná Makram 'Ubayd, an al-Wafd Party figure, said that there is not presently an Islamic State in Egypt, nor will there be after the January Revolution, where there is no room for eliminating any element in the country. She stressed her support of the civil state.
She added that Egypt is a civil...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
The Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization and the Public Coptic Association held a press conference to respond to the appointed U.S. envoy for minorities' rights in the Middle East and the Arab world.
Date of source: Sunday, August 7, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III made intensive calls to the Ethiopian Church to reach a positive Ethiopian decision about Egypt's share from Nile River, as well as solving the current problem of establishing al-Alfīyah dam.
Church sources said that the pope is praying for this problem.
Date of source: Thursday, July 28, 2011
Salafī Public Will Front, Coalition of Islamist Power, announced their agreement on seven demands for the Friday of public will on July 29, 2011, on top of those demands that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces [SCAF] to put a clear timeline for parliamentary and presidential election.
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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.