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Date of source: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
“This compromise would settle the differences between the camp that seeks changing the Egyptian nation’s Islamic identity by just stopping at sheer general principles and the camp that seeks including the rulings of the Sharī’ah into the constitution,” said ‘Isām Dirbālah said in statements.
“The...
Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2012
Amidst a deafening media commotion on the unprecedented influx by Egyptian Orthodox Christians into the holy sites in occupied Jerusalem and Bethlehem, two viewpoints have emerged.
One camp says those visits amount to be normalization with the Israelis and that they break the barriers of an...
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
During the first weekly sermon, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II called for an end to violence and prayed for peace and stability in Egypt. Additionally, Pope Tawadros II explained he would meet the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar the following day (Sunday, February 3, 2013) in order to sign the document...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Bank officials denounced claims that accuse Egyptian Christians of withdrawing their deposit funds from Egyptian banks in an alleged attempt to destabilize the state. Former governor of Egypt’s Central Bank and director of Misr-Iran Bank Ismā’īl Hasan said that such claims against Christians are...
Date of source: Sunday, January 20, 2013
In Rose al-Yūsuf, Wafā’ Shi’īrah wrote, “it appears that Pope Tawadros is dissenting from the way of the late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III by granting divorce and remarriage to a Christian woman without the knowledge of her husband” (Wafā’ Shi’īrah, Rose al-Yūsuf, Jan. 20, p. 1). Read original...
Date of source: Thursday, January 17, 2013
The spokesman of the Construction and Development Party Hishām al-Najjār addressed the Coptic Church, warning the Church of any political alliance with Egyptian Shi'ites or with the Shi'ite government of Iran. According to al-Najjār, the Church tries to compensate its "political" failure with the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 17, 2013
The following is the full text of the interview with 'Imād 'Abd al-Ghafūr, Leader of al-Watan Party (under establishment), former leader of the Salafī al-Nūr Party and Vice-President for social networking:
Q: What is al-Watan Party? And how do you coordinate with Hāzim Abū Ismā'īl in the so-...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
In collaboration with local intermediaries and religious clerics, security authorities in Sohag Governorate intensify their efforts to prevent sectarian strife in the village of al- Samatā, al-Billīnā Township after a 42-year old Coptic man called al-Nimr Wahīb Najīb had assaulted and killed the 62...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
Col. Yāsir Jum'ah, a communications police officer at the Cairo Security Department, has grown a beard and was summoned and rebuked by his seniors, according to the Facebook surfers.
Date of source: Monday, January 7, 2013
President Muḥammad Mursī sent a telegram to Pope Tawāḍrūs II congratulating him on Christmas, as the Pope conducteded the Holy Mass at the Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbasiya, which was held yesterday evening. President Mursī delegated Muḥammad Rifāʿa al-Tahtāwī to the Mass.
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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.