{"id":46562,"date":"2017-05-04T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=46562"},"modified":"2017-05-07T14:32:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T12:32:28","slug":"%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ab%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a4%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ab%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a4%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9\/","title":{"rendered":"Second day of \u201cPluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in Egypt\u201d Conference activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u2022 Founding\u00a0religious universities is applied in many countries of the world<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u2022 Develop new illuminated programs within the education system<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u2022 Corporatism\u00a0in religious and civil institutions between Muslims and Christians<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in Egypt&#8221; Conference which began\u00a0on Tuesday at Ain Shams University and continued for the second day at the main hall of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center in Abbasiya focused on important issues.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The opening session of the second day was headed by His Eminence Anba\u00a0Ermia, Head\u00a0of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center and Vice-President of the Conference, His Eminence\u00a0praised Ain Shams University initiative and called on other\u00a0Egyptian universities to adopt it and work in cooperation and coordination with Ain Shams University.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">A number of important researches were presented by researchers from&#8221;Algeria, Lebanon, Egypt, Sweden&#8221; and discussed: &#8220;The Cultural and civilization hoard of the Egyptian People and its role in Establishing the Foundation of\u00a0Coexistence , The Role of the University in Promoting Peaceful Coexistence, the Concept of Unity In the context of Egypt&#8217;s foreign policy, the multiplicity of Egypt&#8217;s religious characteristics in the Bible, the renewal of the jurisprudence discourse in light of peaceful coexistence &#8220;<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">Dr. Tarek Mansour rapporteur of the conference called to copy\u00a0the idea of the conference in different countries especially that \u200b\u200bpeaceful coexistence and pluralism is not limited\u00a0to certain countries, and added that extremism and terrorism in all its forms is not related to a certain religion or gender.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">In response to some opinion that Al-Azhar University presence in Egypt is\u00a0a form of discrimination, he stressed that Religious universities exists in different countries of the world for\u00a0the purpose of studying specialized religious sciences, as\u00a0in many Western countries there are universities specialized in teaching theology. Even in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia itself, we find Islamic universities that study jurisprudence and forensic\u00a0sciences for those who are interested in religious advocacy.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">His Grace\u00a0Anba\u00a0Ermia pointed out that founding\u00a0a\u00a0religions complex is no longer limited to Egypt but has been implemented in a number of Gulf countries.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">He also announced that due to the recent terrorist attacks on churches before Easter, Christians were allowed to pray and hold Masses in hospitals after Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi brought\u00a0up this suggestion, and indeed priests went to Military hospitals amid\u00a0the spirit of tolerance, love, openness and acceptance of other.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">Audience, led by Prof. Aziz Aly President of the European Commission for Arab Partnership, Dean of the Faculty of Law in\u00a0the Kingdom of Sweden and representative of conference\u00a0participants stressed\u00a0on the pivotal role of Egypt in the Arab region, especially in light of tugging and conflicts that the majority of Arab countries are going through, stressing on the ability of Egypt to lead the whole world and not only Arabs.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The participants stressed on the importance of education in eradicating extremist ideology, intolerance and racism also\u00a0the need to develop new illuminated educational programs as well as the role of religious and civil society institutions in bringing\u00a0Muslims and Christians closer in all aspects of life.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">At the end of each session, researchers participating in the conference were awarded certificates of appreciation, and HG Anba\u00a0Ermia, presented a memorial gift (an obelisk with the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center logo) to Prof. Tarik Mansour and Prof. Ahmed Zakaria Al-Shalq.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The second day of the conference was attended by artist Tarik Dessouki.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>[epa-album id=&#8221;46740&#8243; show_title=&#8221;false&#8221; display=&#8221;full&#8221;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Founding\u00a0religious universities is applied in many countries of the world \u2022 Develop new illuminated programs within the education system \u2022 Corporatism\u00a0in religious and civil institutions between Muslims and Christians &#8220;Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in Egypt&#8221; Conference which began\u00a0on Tuesday at Ain Shams University and continued for the second day at the main hall of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":46563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,40,74],"tags":[5805,4688,8375,240,8388,1455,446],"class_list":["post-46562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-photos","category-74","tag-activities","tag-conference","tag-pluralism-and-peaceful-coexistence-in-egypt","tag---2","tag-8388","tag-1455","tag-446"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46839,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46562\/revisions\/46839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}