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Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2013
During the weekly sermon held on Saturday evening, February 16, 2013 at Saint Mina Church in Alexandria, Pope Tawadros II asked the Egyptian people to distance themselves from their lives of complaint, calling on them to adhere to a spirit of peace and love instead.
Present at the sermon were...
36. Witnesses: No attack on the Church of al-Faiyum .. and a Coptic journalist was making false news
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2013
In an unexpected surprise, it was revealed that the extreme Coptic websites were making false allegations that an attack occurred on Saint George Church in the village of Sirisnā of al-Faiyum, while eyewitnesses assured that no attack took place (John ‘Abd al-Malāk, al-Misrīyūn, Feb.17, p. 3). Read...
Date of source: Thursday, February 14, 2013
The inauguration celebrations for the new Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, John X Yazigi, were held at the Holy Cross Church in Damascus. According to anonymous sources, Pope Tawadros II sent a congratulatory cable. Representing Bashar al-Assad at the inauguration was Mansour...
Date of source: Thursday, February 14, 2013
Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the Azhar has expressed its hopes for friendly relations with the Vatican. This comes two years after the Azhar cut all relations with the Vatican as a result of a statement of the resigned Pope that Christians in the Middle East are being persecuted...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The Coptic Orthodox Church is in a state of turmoil in the days preceding the inauguration of the Council of Churches of Egypt. Pope Tawadros will head the official opening on February 18, 2013 (John ‘Abd al-Malāk and Mu'tiz al-Khusūsī, al-Misrīyūn, Feb. 13, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Islamic newspaper al-Misrīyūn published an article entitled “Pope Tawadros complain to Germany about Egypt”.
After his three-day visit to Egypt, the German Volker Kauder, a CDU politician and Chairman of the CDU/CSU [Christian Democratic Union and Christian Secular Union] parliamentary group...
Date of source: Friday, February 8, 2013
Coptic activist and member of the Egyptian Association for Enlightenment Ishāq Hannā revealed that the Church is dependent on money from expatriate Copts for the next parliamentary election. Without this money Coptic politicians cannot establish new political parties (Muhammad Rabī’ and Imān...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Mūsá of Youth has refused the post of the official spokesperson for the Orthodox Coptic Church of Egypt although the pressure exerted on him by Pope Tawadros to accept the position (John 'Abd al-Malāk, al-Misrīyūn, Feb. 6, p. 2). Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The Freedom and Justice Party, the political branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, has revealed its intention to nominate Copts on its lists of candidates so that the number of Copts on all candidate lists comes to 7 percent (Muhammad Rabī', al-Misrīyūn, Feb. 6, p. 4). Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The North Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced two Copts to three years in high security prison for stealing weapons from the military in October 2011.
Investigations showed that Michael Najīb and Michael Shākir were found in possession of military firearms.
Najīb and Shākir are accused of stealing...
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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.