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Date of source: Monday, December 13, 2010
Pope Shenouda postponed returning from Monastery of Saint Bīshūy (Dayr Anbā Bīshūy) in Wādī al-Natrūn that was scheduled in Sunday December 12, 2010.
Pope didn't state the time of his arrival but its expected that it will be before his well-known weekly sermon in Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2010
Muhsin 'Arīshī quotes observers who believe that influential bishops in Coptic Orthodox Church have dismissed Jesus' message of peace.
Moreover, security authorities and moderate copts are debating the reason coptic radicals decided to follow the example of Muslim fundamentalists attempting to take...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr says that the ‘Umrāniyyah Appeals Committee has turned down a challenge by the Giza Bishopric to reverse the decision to stop construction at the disputed church site.
The report says the previous meeting of the ‘Umrāniyyah Appeals Committee had postponed its decision so that the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The remaining twenty-three Copts arrested during November clashes with police while protesting the stalled construction of an unathorized Coptic church building in Giza have been released.
Clashes began after security forces attemped to demolish a building in al-‘Umrāniyyah, saying that an...
Date of source: Monday, December 6, 2010
Pope Shenouda III opened two new churches in Sharm al-Shaykh last Saturday. The openings were attended by South Sinai Governor Muhammad ‘Abd al-Fudayl Shūshah, Bishops Yū’ánnis, Butrus, and Armiyā and were received by Bishop Apollo of South Sinai.
The Pope did not make it back to Cairo in time to...
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 2010
This article highlights an interview between Radio Vatican and Father Rafīq Greish, a spokesman for the Coptic Catholic Church, who speaks about the state of Egyptian Christians during the past months.
Greish discusses the ‘Umrāniyyah riots against the construction stoppage of an unlicensed church...
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 2010
Prosecutor General ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd has released nineteen Copts allegedly involved in the November riot over the stoppage of construction at a church in ‘Umraniyyah, Giza.
A statement by Mahmūd says that the detainees were released because of “humanitarian and social circumstances,” stating...
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2010
Egyptian President Husnī Mubārak has met with Pope Shenouda III ahead of Christmas celebrations. The two met at the Presidential Palace in Cairo late last month.
The meeting came in light of the Pope’s perceived disappointment at the government’s actions in the ‘Umrāniyyah church construction...
Date of source: Thursday, December 2, 2010
Pope Shenouda III’s lawyer, Ramses al-Najjār, denied the Church’s alleged disapproval of the Supreme Administrative Court’s ruling in favor of Hānī Wasfī, obliging the Pope to issue permits for Copts to remarry.
He explained that although the Supreme Administrative Court turned down the writ...
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 2010
Rūmānī Sādiq Girgis was arrested after his recovery yesterday at the Um al-Misriyyīn Hospital for allegedly participating in last Wednesday’s ‘Umrāniyyah riots. 157 suspects have been arrested in total, all of which have been transferred to the Turah facilities. Calmness has reportedly returned to...
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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.