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Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 2021
Thousand days have passed since the disappearance of Muṣṭafā al-Najjār Egyptian politician, founder of the Justice Party, and a symbol of the January revolution 2011. The Egyptian authorities still did not investigate his case, denying his imprisonment and rejecting the disclosure of his...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2021
The defrocked monk Yaʿqūb al-Maqārī continues to exploit his monastic name and clothes on the social media platform Facebook, despite his divestment from the Coptic Orthodox Church in 2018. The Church does not recognize the place he lives in as a monastery (Monastery of the Virgin Mary and Saint...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2021
50 years have passed since the founding of the "Church of Martyr Mark the Apostle and Pope Peter, Seal of the Martyrs of Alexandria", commonly known as the "Church of the Two Saints". On June 12, 2021, Pope Tawāḍrūs consecrated the church, which was the site of a terrorist bombing in 2011 that...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Saudi Arabia’s latest decision to permit women to live independently without a male guardian opens the door for many Egyptian women to pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia by themselves.
However, experts confirmed to Akhbār al-Yawm that according to Egyptian law, women younger than 40 years are obliged to...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2021
Fr. Mūsā Ibrāhīm, official spokesperson of the Coptic Orthodox Church, announced that Pope Tawādrūs II decided to form a commission to follow up on the legal consequences around the issue of Wādī al Rayyān.
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2021
Pope Tawāḍrūs congratulated President ʿAbd al-Fatāḥ al-Sīsī for receiving the Leader's Order from the Arab parliament, legislative body of the Arab League, in the name of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The award honors the president for his efforts in serving the Arab world and resolving regional...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 1, 2021
On the occasion of the Feast of Christ’s Entry into Egypt, Pope Tawāḍrūs II held a mass at the Abū Sirja Church in Old Cairo, one of the places where the Holy Family resided during their stay in Egypt.
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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.