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Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2012
A decision has been made to appoint special officers to join the departments for the protection of propriety, event management and the Tourism and Antiquities Police in order to investigate the harassment of women. This is to ensure an appropriate environment for reporting and investigation of...
Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2012
During celebrations commemorating Bishop Pachomius of al-Beheira and the 41st anniversary of his ordination, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II called on the Egyptian people to pray for the peace of the country and to ask God to protect Egypt from all the dangers threatening her at this time.
Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2012
The Azhar appealed to all Egyptians to vote in the upcoming referendum over the Constitution in accordance with their religious and national conscience, calling this a “national duty”. In a speech yesterday, the Azhar called for the referendum to be carried out peacefully and for the avoidance of...
Date of source: Thursday, November 15, 2012
The ongoing conflict over the constitution is a clear indication of the state of political/religious division the Egyptian society is going through. [Nabīl ‘Abd al-Fattāh, al-Ahrām, Nov. 15, p. 10] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, December 9, 2012
The head of Egypt's National Council for Women Rights (ENCW), Mrs. Mervat al-Tallāwī called on countries members to adopt the resolution approved upon in 2008 on Egypt to be the center of the Council.
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2012
Dr. Reverend Safwat al-Bayādī’s open letter to the President of Egypt:
As we are on the threshold of the drafted Constitutional referendum to be run amid an atmosphere of anxiety, I give diligence to express my great concern and fear on the future of our precious and beloved country, Egypt....
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2012
Makram Muhammad Ahmad writes in an article entitled “The Copts’ Vision vs. The Referendum”:
”The date set for the constitutional referendum could have been the date on which we celebrate the nascent democracy, a day that embodies Egyptians’ unity in the goals endorsed in a new Constitution drafted...
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2012
State-owned daily newspaper, al-Ahrām, also reports on the million-participant gathering to pray for peace in Egypt. ”Save our country, Lord, save it from terrorism and evil and fill it with your grace!” It is with these words of praise that masses of Egyptian Christians gathered in Saint Simon...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Unfortunately, the cause of fitnah, whose impact and consequences we suffer from until now, is that one party denies Islam, and the other believes in and defends it. The fact is that everyone belongs to this country, but we object that one national group has the upper hand over everything and...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Muftī of the Republic Dr. 'Alī Jum'ah said that Islam prohibited incitement to shed the blood of anyone and considered it more sacred than "Bayt Allah al-Harām" (Allah's Holy House) [referring to Mecca where Muslims go for pilgrimage]. q
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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.