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Date of source: Saturday, February 18, 2023
The article discusses religious defamation within the Egyptian legal system.
Date of source: Monday, December 19, 2022
Reverend Andriya Zakī, head of the Evangelical Community in Egypt, spoke about the progress being made in the construction of new churches through the law on the Building and Restoration of Churches. He stated that the construction of 428 churches has been legalized in the past 5 years, out of a...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
In his speech at the conference on “Tolerance, Peace, and Sustainable Development in the Arab World,” Dr. Mukhtār Gumaʿa, the Minister of Religious Endowments (awqāf) in Egypt, highlighted the importance of advancing the values of tolerance and respect for diversity, as well as the importance of...
Date of source: Thursday, November 3, 2022
Dr. Maya Morsī, President of the National Council for Women, said that the national initiative for smart green projects is a pioneering effort in urgent areas, as it seeks to achieve sustainable development goals and address climate change. In her speech, Dr. Morsī emphasized that Egyptian women...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 28, 2022
The Ministry of Youth and Sports closed the file of ʿUyūn Miṣr' Club because of its affiliation with one of the religious sects, which contradicts the concepts of citizenship stipulated in the constitution, which forbid any discrimination on religious grounds in any societal component, including...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 10, 2022
The Public Prosecution Office stated that violence against women is not pervasive in the way that some people seek to export it, taking advantage of these facts and the community’s interest in following up on its details as if they express the state of society as a whole. These individual criminal...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Yesterday, al-Mansūra Misdemeanor Court ordered the release of researcher and human rights activist Patrick George Zakī. The court postponed Zakī’s trial until February 1, because the defense’s arguments still need to be heard.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2021
On December 28, the Administrative Court of Alexandria issued a court decision rejecting a lawsuit that required the authorities to allocate land for cemeteries to non-adherents of the three religions, and to citizens of the Baha’i faith [Bahāʾī] whose religious domain on their official papers is...
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 2021
2021 was a transformation year for Egypt’s foreign policy. During this year, actions to advance understanding were taken and reconciliations were conducted with both Qatar and Turkey. The relations between the two countries and Egypt were complicated for many years due to their support to the...
Date of source: Monday, November 15, 2021
On Monday, Major General ʿIṣām Saʿad, Governor of Asyūṭ, met with Archbishop Nicolas Henry, the Vatican’s Ambassador to Egypt and representative of His Holiness Pope Francis. Archbishop Nicolas Henry visited some churches in various districts of the governorate, and met with Muslim and Christian...
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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.