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Date of source: Thursday, October 29, 2020
Recently, religious institutions have rejected and condemned Charlie Hebdo’s republication of the images insulting the Prophet Muḥammad. At the same time, there have also been media reports of an extremist burning the Qur’an in Sweden, and French reactions and stances on the issue continue to...
Date of source: Monday, September 23, 2019
In November of 2011, Dr. ‘Iṣām ‘Abd Āllah 'Iskandar, writer and professor of philosophy at ‘Ain Shams University, appeared on Coptic Sat, one of several Coptic Orthodox Church TV channels in Egypt, claiming that the number of Coptic Christians in the country exceeds 23 million. He appears agitated...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2018
The fundamental traditional Islam spread in Egypt not only among followers of Islamist political movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, but also among the ordinary segments of the population, and after decades of abortions of any attempt to renew the religious discourse.
A year...
Date of source: Friday, August 1, 2014
Clashes occurred yesterday between two families, one Muslim and one Coptic, in the village of Malawi in the Minya governate.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Al-Tahrīr criticized the statement and called it “manipulation and fraud”.
Below is the full text of the statement as it came on the “Office of Assistant to President of Egypt on Foreign Relations – Official” Facebook page, it was posted on Monday, April 8, 2013:
- On Al-Khusous and Cathedral...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Najīb Jubrā’īl, head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights, said that the five Coptic detainees are: ‘Izat Hakīm, ‘Isá Ibrāhīm, ‘Adil Shākir, Shirīf Ramsīs, and ‘Imād Sidīq. He added that the detainees are being tortured by the Libyan Preventive Security Unit and have to be released immediately. ...
Date of source: Friday, January 25, 2013
Ahram Online wrote on January 24:
Representative from Egypt's Christian churches have withdrawn from President Mohamed Morsi's national dialogue.
The Coptic Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical churches decided to leave the dialogue on Wednesday because it was "unproductive" and did not "yield the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
Nine army soldiers on Wednesday (February 15) completed their treatment from injuries they sustained during the Maspero incidents as medical reports showed that a soldier received a bullet in his buttocks, four with knife stabs – one in the arm, another in the leg and two in the abdomen – and four...
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 to Sunday, April 1, 2018
Salafīs have saved the village of Sharbāt, al-Nahdāh neighborhood, in the western Alexandria district of al-'Āmrīyah, from a conflagration that could have consumed everyone in its way, said the spokesman for the Salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party, the second largest in the Egyptian parliament.
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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.