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Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 31, 2003 to الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 6, 2003
The author expresses surprise at the fact that priests and bishops in some Orthodox Churches replace pictures of Jesus Christ crucified with nails in the palm of his hands with pictures showing nails in his wrists.
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2003
There is a great respect in Egyptian schoolbooks for Christian religion, although there is only little information on its faith and life. There is excellent information on the early history of the Copts in Egypt, but almost no information about the Christian minority after the conquest of Egypt....
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 9, 2002
Many of the sayings and stances of Jesus Christ show that He is not against sex. However, the early fathers of Christianity introduced the theory of sexual fasting and considered it the peak of faith. This anti-sex attitude led to an anti-women attitude and to many arguments concerning whether a...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 1, 2004
Many Muslims believe that Christians in the West have never given up the idea of the Crusades and missionaries work hand in hand with Western imperialists. The Bishop concludes that the Crusades occurred as a result of ignorance of Christ's teachings and love. The church today views the Crusades as...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 10, 2004
Short summary of the sermon of Lord George Carey, on the occasion of his visit to Egypt, July, 2004 about Matthew 16: 13-17. The sermon addresses the question of who Jesus is.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 3, 2003
Introducing Bishop Thomas Bishop Thomas is a man with vision. He is from a well-to-do Egyptian family and could have emigrated to the West but instead not only decided to stay in Egypt but the become a monk. One year later he became bishop of al-Qussia and he saw it as his mission to raising his...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 19, 2004
A couple of days ago, BBC aired a children’s program produced by Comedy Central, an American channel, which coincided with the celebration of Eastern Easter. The film depicted Jesus Christ being killed by Iraqis who also tortured Santa Claus.
Perhaps the showing of this program reduces the...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 16, 2004
Response of Dr. Jeff Adams, member
of the AWR board of advisors. He is convinced Drs. Hulsman’s article makes some very good points.
Dr. Adams rejects that many Christians have lifted passages from the Qur’an and used them as the
basis for anti-Islamic statements. The same technique is used by...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 1, 2004
Report and comment on a visit to the self-proclaimed pope Habeel in Old Cairo
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 7, 2004
Both Christians and Muslims honour the name and memory of those who become martyrs for their faith, and the Qur’an warns that adversity is part of the life of the believer. But there is a widespread feeling among Muslims that Christians over-emphasize the part that failure and adversity play in...
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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.