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Date of source: Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Social media users recently circulated a shocking video of Fr. Ṣamūʾīl al-Buḥayrī, one of the priests of the ʿIzbat al-Nakhl region, describing Protestant marriage as adultery. The video reeks of hatred and contempt for a segment of society that is the closest segment to his own and forms an...
Date of source: Friday, November 4, 2022
Today, 4th November, the Coptic Orthodox Church commemorated the birth of Pope Tawāḍrūs II, the 70th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.
Mājid Kāmil, a member of the Papal Committee on Church History, said in his study: “One of the many talents I have observed in His Holiness...
Date of source: Saturday, October 22, 2022
Anbā Sirābiyūn (Serapion), Metropolitan Bishop of Los Angeles, revealed in the recent edition of the al-Kirāza, the Official magazine of the Coptic Orthodox Church, that the fourth meeting of the Commission for Bilateral Dialogue between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 19, 2022
The Coptic Orthodox Church hosted over two days the 13th meeting of the leaders of the Eastern Orthodox Churches in the Middle East region, including Pope Tawāḍrūs II of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, Mār Ignatius Aphrem II of Antioch and all the East of the Syriac Orthodox Church...
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2022
Bahrain is preparing to welcome Pope Francis I in the coming November in his second visit to the Gulf after signing the Document of Human Fraternity in the USA in 2019, where Pope Francis met the Shaykh al-Azhar and the Council of Muslim Elders. Bahrain is known for its efforts in religious...
Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2022
Not a year passes without the Coptic Church announcing that a fire has broken out in one of its churches due to a short circuit, followed by the expression: “without loss of life”. These repeated fires, although limited, have seldom drawn anyone’s attention to the lack of emergency systems in...
Date of source: Friday, August 14, 2020
The Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, has directed the General Administration for the Special Accounts of al-Azhar to coordinate quickly with family groups to pay urgent subsidies to the families of those who died in the fire at Abū Sīfīn Church in Imbāba, Giza.
Date of source: Saturday, August 6, 2022
This year we celebrate the bicentenary of Champollion decoding the Rosetta Stone. The key to his success was the Coptic language, the final descendant of the Ancient Egyptian language.
Date of source: Friday, August 5, 2022
Pope Tawāḍrūs II headed the consecration of the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Resurrection and the Virgin Mary, also known as the Church of the Holy Association in the Daher [al-Ẓāhir] neighborhood of Cairo, after the church’s recent renovations.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 15, 2022
The Sohag [Sūhāj] Family Court has ruled that the husband’s conversion to Islam is not sufficient cause to grant his Christian wife a divorce, refusing to apply the official statute of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
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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.