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Date of source: Sunday, March 30, 2014
Pope Tawadros’ mother has passed away on March 28. A mass was led by Pope Tawadros in the Monastery of St. Dimyanah in Dakahlia and was attended by government and popular leaders, representatives of churches and masses of condolers. Thousands have lined up to give condolences in St. Mark’s...
Date of source: Sunday, March 30, 2014
Time Magazine stated that Egyptian Copts are regarding Field Marshal Abd al- Fattāh al- Sīsī as the miracle that they have been waiting for after a year of Muslim Brotherhood rule. The article added that a large number of Egyptian Copts have been praying God to rid them of the Muslim Brotherhood (...
Date of source: Sunday, March 30, 2014
Mary Sāmih George is a Coptic girl who was killed on Friday when she was caught in the midst of protests that turned violent between the Muslim Brotherhood and the security forces. According to her father, Mary visited ‘Izbit al Nakhl, a poor quarter in Cairo, on Friday, to make charity...
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: Saturday, March 29, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Mukhtār Gum’ah, Minister of Endowments, stated that the success of the International Conference of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs has assured that Egypt is the country of security and peace. He added that it has showed that Egypt has regained its power and leadership, and that...
Date of source: Saturday, March 29, 2014
UN sources have assured that the continuation of the acts of violence in Burma is targeted at Muslims and aims at killing and displacing them. The last attack targeted the offices of the UN and other organizations in Burma and led to the killing and displacement of tens of thousands of Muslims. The...
Date of source: Saturday, March 28, 2015
A number of religious clerics stated their concern about banning the hijāb (hair veil) in a number of states in Germany for teachers. They stated that the decision is a matter of intimidating Muslim teachers so they refrain from teaching. Asnaf Basjak from Osnabrueck University in Germany [position...
Date of source: Saturday, March 28, 2015
An Egyptian association, Ummah Wāhidah, is leading a relief campaign for Muslims of the Central African Republic who suffer from targeted killings and genocide. The campaign involves relief convoys to the refugee camps in the border areas with Chad and Cameron (Amr Hassan, al- Fath, March 28, p....
Date of source: Saturday, March 28, 2015
A spokesman of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Egypt has taken part in an international conference on religious dialogue for peace in Africa. Egypt was represented by Dr. Mahmoud Azab, Advisor of the Azhar Shaykh on Dialogue (Dalia al- Hamshary, al- Dustūr , March 28, p. 2)....
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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.