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Date of source: Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Armed clashes occur in the Governorate of Qena between two tribes, the 'Imar and the al-Munāna'a family. Yesterday, one person, Farj Yahyá, died after having been shot. They fought over a piece of land. People are afraid that the violence could spread to the whole governorate. The heads of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Pope Tawadros II., Pope and Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, is preparing the Chrism Oil for the first time since he became Pope.The first time is also the hardest, since there are some who attack him personally for violation of the faith since he has changed the rituals of preparing the...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Pope Tawadros attended yesterday the graduation ceremony of the 2013 class of the Care and Educational Institute (Girgis Fikrī, al- Shurūq, April 2, 2014, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Pope Tawadros received Ibrahīm Mahlab, Prime Minister, and Sidkī Subhī, Minister of Defense, members of a high ranking governmental delegation, to pay respects and give condolence to Pope Tawadros on the death of his mother.
Ibrahīm Mahlab, Prime Minister, has approved that Mayādah Ashraf and Mary...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Anonymous sources stated to al- Shurūq, that a number of mediators have communicated with Dr. Muhammad Alī Bishr, who has been delegated with the political affairs of the Muslim Brotherhood in an attempt to resolve the current political conflict. The sources stated that Bishr commented that these...
Date of source: Monday, March 31, 2014
Councilor Hishām Barakāt, the Public Prosecutor, announced yesterday the preliminary results of the investigations carried out by the prosecution in the acts of violence that took place in ‘Ain Shams, Cairo March 29th where masked armed men, joined by protestors of the Muslim Brotherhood, started...
Date of source: Saturday, March 29, 2014
A Saudi Islamic scholar has requested his country’s authorities to chemically castrate men convicted of sexually harassing women. Sa’ūd ‘Abd Allah Finās, former Dean of Sharī’ah Faculty at the Imām University, stated during a phone call on Ya Halla show on Rotana Khalījiyah satellite channel that...
Date of source: Saturday, March 29, 2014
Security forces in the Sohag Security Department successfully thwarted a sectarian fitnah (strife) in al- Nusayrāt Village in Dar Al- Salām [CH: nor far from al-Kusheh, the village making headlines in 1998 and 2000 for violence that turned against Christians]. A Copt has started to construct a...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The State Security Prosecution has continued its investigations with the defendants of Ansār Bayt al- Maqdis cell that were arrested in the Arab Sharkas area in Qalyubia. A weapons store was found during the security campaign. The prosecution investigated plans to attack 8 churches and a number of...
Date of source: Monday, March 24, 2014
Father Sedrak, spokesman of the Orthodox Church in Ethiopia, stated that Pope Matthias I, Ethiopian Orthodox Pope will visit Pope Tawadros II after the Feast of Resurrection (Eastern) on April 20th. He added that the visit is unknot related to the crisis of the Nahdah dam, as it is a spiritual and...
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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.