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Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Naja' Hammādī has witnessed a new kidnapping of two high school students – Jirjis Rizq and Mīnā Nash'at – while they were on their way to the Anbā Badābā Monastery using motorbikes, five kilometers away from the town.
Running out of gas, Rizq and Nash'at phoned their friends get them some gas but...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Meanwhile, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb vehemently denounced "deluded groups" for the bombing attacks that targeted a church in the Nigerian Capital Abuja and the shedding of innocent blood.
[Reviewer's Note: The extremist Islamist group Boko Haram had claimed responsibility for the...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
One year after the Two Saints Church bombing attack that left 20 people dead and dozens others wounded, Father Archpriest Maqār Fawzī said he is not scared by the Islamists' ascendance, expecting "a decent life for Copts under a sound Islamic rule". [Muhammad Mutāwa' and Bilāl 'Abd al-'Azīm, Al-...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Meanwhile, presidential hopeful Dr. 'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh called on Muslim and Christian clerics to bring up youths and youngsters to respect sound religious values and teach them how to avoid fanaticism, extremism and hatred of others. "It is a shame that some Christians say they would...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The investigations into the Maspero case accused three priests, Muslim Brotherhood members and four political movements of inciting and sparking riots, summoning witnesses for the prosecution for the second time. Suspects said that they had nothing to do with the protests in Maspero but that they...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Activist 'Alā' 'Abd al-Fattāh said that assaults on women will have a strong reaction on January 25, 2012, adding "we will take revenge for women." "The accused in the Maspero incidents are quite sure about their innocence. Demonstrations and sit-ins are just part of the reactions to the practices...
Date of source: Monday, December 26, 2011
In an opinion article in al-Ahrām of Dec. 26, Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī, Head of the Evangelical Community Council in Egypt, said during the past few days – after the deplorable incidents off the cabinet office and the burning of the Institut D'Egypte, some there were many questions about Christians'...
Date of source: Monday, December 26, 2011
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Ahmad al-Tayīb said that the core and crux of the top Sunni establishment's survival is its moderation in intellect and behavior.
"The Azhar's curricula help the society maintain its belief and faith in the face of any extremism or deviation," Tayīb said during a meeting...
Date of source: Monday, December 26, 2011
Sawirus, the founder of the Free Egyptians Party, called on the Muslim Brotherhood to reveal their budget for the election campaign and spending on the candidates of the Freed and Justice Party (FJP), the Brotherhood's political arm.
"An Arab leader had asked me to notify security (intelligence)...
Date of source: Monday, December 26, 2011
In a step that is expected to spark row, Egypt Free Shops Company (EFSCO) received instructions from the finance ministry to refrain from selling liquor and cigarettes in its branches outside airports. The step coincides with the major breakthrough achieved by Islamists in the first and second...
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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.