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Following a wave of controversy over reports that authorities in Egypt's South Sinai governorate were seeking to confiscate the historic Saint Catherine Monastery, administratively affiliated with the Greek Orthodox Church, and seize its lands,...
The Ismāʿīlīya Court of Appeal, an affiliate of the Ṭūr Sinai Department, handed down a verdict on Wednesday (May 28) in the lawsuit filed over disputed land plots in the South Sinai governorate, granting the monks of Saint Catherine Monastery the...
Foreign Minister Badr ʿAbd al-ʿĀṭī, during a meeting on Friday with European ambassadors accredited to Egypt, reviewed in detail the court ruling from May 28 regarding the lands surrounding Saint Catherine Monastery.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr ʿAbd al-ʿĀṭī reiterated on Friday (May 30) Egypt’s full commitment to preserving Saint Catherine Monastery's unique and sacred religious status, stressing that this status will remain unchanged.
The Coptic Orthodox Church recently released a book that documented the incident of the martyrdom of 21 Egyptians in Libya, where they were slain by members of the terrorist Daesh organization in 2015.
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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.