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Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 22, 2012
Some bishops are now trying to convince Pachomius, who exerted tremendous efforts during a short period of time he ran the church affairs after the death of Pope Shenouda, to run for the papal chair as called by a group of Coptic laymen and clerics, according to a church source who did not want his...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb stressed the importance of dialogue among followers of all heavenly religions to reinforce the spirit of tolerance and peace.
This came during his meeting with Ambassador Ismā’īl Khayrat, president of the Egypt State Information Service, who is...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb stressed the importance of dialogue among followers of all heavenly religions to reinforce the spirit of tolerance and peace.
This came during his meeting with Ambassador Ismā’īl Khayrat, president of the Egypt State Information Service, who is...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2012
For his part, Bishop Yuhanna Qultah writes that the situation in Egypt these days is confusing and worrying as politics is mixed with religion and economics and the competition to reach power and money is on the rise. "Where is the Egyptian dream of life, freedom and dignity?” he wondered.
He...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2012
A holding company of tourism submitted four-thousand artistic paintings for the last farewell of Pope Shenouda as part of the Easter celebrations.
Nūr al-Dīn Bakr, president of the company, said that the project aims to sell one million copies with EgP300 each and export a large number to the...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2012
Bishop Armiyā, Pope Shenouda’s personal secretary and the closest aide, did not attend the Mass because he could not stand not having Pope Shenouda absent from this ceremony for the first time. Instead, the personal secretary attended the Mass at the Monastery of Saint Moses the Black.
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Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 9, 2012
“Christians have the eagerness to visit holy places exactly like that eagerness felt by Muslims to perform pilgrimage to the Ka’bah,” according to an informed church source who did not want his name mentioned.
He denied that those trips to Jerusalem will have any effect on the decision adopted by...
Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 6, 2012
Bishop Bisantī of Helwan and al-Ma’sarah said that the Coptic Orthodox Church did not lift the ban on traveling to Jerusalem.
“The 61 Egyptian Copts who traveled will be forbidden from the reception of Holy Communion according to Pope Shenouda’s ordere. Bishop Bisantī said.
He added that a true...
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 23, 2012
Ahmad al-Jammāl writes an opinion article in al-Akhbār about hadīths where Prophet Muhammad stood up when he saw the funeral of a Jew and says other hadīths conveyed the same meaning.
Al-Jammāl then questioned the reason behind those who refused to stand up in parliament for a minute of silence to...
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 23, 2012
In an opinion article in al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Jamāl Qutb writes about the differences between the Azhar and the church administration. He said the Azhar administration is incapacitated and the church administration is overstepping its limits. The overstepping of the church is understandable but the...
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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.