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Date of source: Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb called on the Western religious institutions led by the Vatican to stop "spreading the culture of hatred and incitation against Islam and end groundless attacks on it."
"We need to search for enlightened models that would contribute to disseminating the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
The streets of the Mediterranean city of Alexandria are witnessing differences among the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Salafī Da'wah (Call) and the salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party over the polio immunization campaign announced by the Egyptian health ministry to run until...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Ministry of Justice's fact-finding commission revealed that the Coptic organization 'Caritas' registred under 1150 had received approximately LE 1 billion foreign funds in different currencies from countries, foreign organizations and donors, furthermore, did not respect the country's sovereignty ...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
A number of Coptic organizations and movements called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the Cabinet to form a fact-finding commission to investigate the attack on Saint George Church in the village of Marīnāb, Idfū town, Aswan governorate.
A number of Muslims had burned the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Mikhael 'Ādīl writes about Copts' desires to visit Jerusalem, and Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III's rejection. Pope Shenouda had occasionally called on Copts not to visit Jerusalem in solidarity with Palestine and Muslims. The pope added that in Christianity there is no pilgrimage, noting that...
Date of source: Saturday, September 24, 2011
Dr. Shirīf Dūs, president of the General Coptic Association, is intending to hold talks with presidents of liberal and leftist political parties to form a coalition in the next parliament elections to compete with Islamists.
Dr. Ihāb Ramzī, lawyer and Coptic activist, is estimating that 50 Coptic...
Date of source: Thursday, September 22, 2011
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Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria met with Bishop Bishoy of Damiat in the papal headquarters after he returned from a meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for the World Council of Churches (WCC). Bishoy showed the pope a report on the development of Coptic services in Ethiopia and the...
Date of source: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Kamāl Zākhir, general coordinator of the laymen Copts movement, has stressed that his support of NGOs for Coptic second marriage and divorce does not mean that he is against the Orthodox Church. He did, however, assert that the resignations from the Coptic denomination flooding in from a huge...
Date of source: Saturday, September 17, 2011
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The Administrative Judiciary Court has refused to deal with a lawsuit surrounding Nermin Kamal, a Christian convert to Islam supposedly detained in a church building after her conversion. The case has been refused due to a lack of legal papers from a lawyer representing her husband, as he...
Date of source: Monday, September 19, 2011
Much of this week's coverage was dedicated to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister, and his visits to Egypt in which he promoted interfaith dialogue and the concept of a secular state. He met with leaders of Azhar, officials from the Coptic Church and various political representatives.
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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.