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Date of source: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The Beni Suef branch of the National Council for Human Rights has warned that they fear the ongoing events in Beni Suef are signs of a growing fitnah. They have called on all those involved to try and control the situation and come together to find a prompt solution to the crisis (Mustafá al-Bahār...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
North Cairo Court decided to postpone the case of the Salafī preacher Abū Islām, accused of disdaining Christianity, to April 15.
Coptic lawyer Najīb Jubrā’īl had filed a lawsuit to the Public Prosecutor against Abū Islām, owner of al-Ummah Channel, accusing him of disdaining Christianity and...
Date of source: Sunday, March 24, 2013
Rev. Dr. Andrea Zakī, deputy head of the Coptic Evangelical Church and head of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS), advocates abolishing the religious category on the national ID card as a way of confirming the Egyptian identity and avoiding religious division. The...
Date of source: Sunday, March 24, 2013
A number of displaced Copts have once again demanded government protection. A number of nations and organisations have been asked to guarantee this request, including the Vatican, Israel, the European Union and the United states among others. Ilīyyā (Elijah) Basīlī, president of the [alleged]...
Date of source: Monday, March 11, 2013
Below is the full text of the article as it came in Agence France-Presse:
LAHORE, Pakistan — Thousands of angry protesters on Saturday set ablaze more than 100 houses of Pakistani Christians over a blasphemy row in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said.
Over 3,000 Muslim protesters turned...
Date of source: Monday, March 4, 2013
Archpriest Albert Louis, Priest of the Evangelical Church, said that the decision of the Copts and civil powers to boycott the elections was an inevitable development. He rejects the regime’s insistence on holding elections despite the difficult security conditions. He emphasized the importance of...
Date of source: Monday, March 4, 2013
The security agency in Sharm al-Sheikh has found the girl that caused numerous attacks on the St. George Church in Kom Ombo in Aswan Governorate. In response, the Archpriest, Abānūb Wahīd Rā’ī, exclaimed how everyone can now see that the Church did not play any role in the abduction of this woman....
Date of source: Monday, March 4, 2013
Bishop Pachomius of al-Beheira and the five Western cities said to al-Sabāh that the Church is closely following the case of detained Copts in Libya, accused of proselytizing. Many officials and the Egyptian Embassy in Libya are trying to release a number of detainees and prove the invalidity of...
Date of source: Friday, March 1, 2013
According to the distribution manager of al-Misrīyūn, the newspaper was sold out nationwide on said Wednesday. Eyewitnesses confirmed that Copts were buying dozens of copies and setting them on fire. There were also areas where copies of the newspaper were not being sold altogether. These areas...
Date of source: Saturday, March 2, 2013
The Beni Suef Diocese has denied that the Coptic Orthodox Church issued directions/guidance on removing all copies of the newspaper al-Misrīyūn from the markets in opposition to the newspaper’s publication of the Church’s connections and recruitment of members of the Black Bloc.
An anonymous...
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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.