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Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 17, 2001
The suspicions in Mamdouh Nakhla’s press release amount to a conspiracy theory about the death of a priest without having any supporting evidence. Some American Coptic activists tried to convince the RNSAW not to publish this text in the RNSAW because it harms Nakhla’s credibility. The intensive...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 5, 2001
A car accident caused the death of Father Antonios Zaki Ghobrial and three of his relatives in Minya governorate. Nakhla believes this accident is mysterious. He says this should arouse the suspicion of any reasonable person as to whether there was foul play somewhere.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 27, 2001
The priest of the Hanging Church said that the State gives no allocation to the Church, which is only funded by the donations of its children. He denied that emigrant Copts send lots of money to the Egyptian Church. The pastor of the Church of Ain Shams said that the financial affairs of the Church...
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2001
The General Prosecution confirmed that the ruling, given by the Criminal Court of Sohag, about the killings in Al-Kosheh was marred by the wrong application of the law and not resorting to a detailed and sufficient verification of the facts and evidence presented during the trial. In addition, the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2001
Lawyer Mamdouh Nakhla filed a lawsuit to oblige the Prime Minister to allocate 300 million pounds a year to support the finances of the Coptic Church, similar to the state’s support for the Azhar.
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 3, 2001 to الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 9, 2001
Political leaders and officials worked out a solution to a problem resulting from a local authority’s demolition of a four-story church annex building. The building was used for church services, as a small hospital and a meeting place. There are almost fourteen thousand Christian families in this...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 5, 2001
Bishop Marcos reported that President Mubarak granted a permit to build a church in Shoubra Al-Kheima. This decision came after the US Copts Association organized an international protest against the demolition of a building belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church. It is practice of Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 5, 2001
The verdict given in the action of Al-Kosheh has caused a strong line of division between Egypt’s Muslims and Christians. Most Muslims accept the impartiality of the court while many Christians, inside and outside Egypt, expressed their anger in articles, letters and interviews about the verdict....
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 14, 2001
The Governor of Minya said the worshipping tree was an ordinary one and that no concerned body told them that it had historical value. The head of Samalout City Council said they set up a fact finding committee that found out that the tree had no religious or historical value. A researcher in the...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 1, 2001 to الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 7, 2001
Christian pilgrims, on the route of the Holy Family, were surprised to discover that the so-called worshipping tree in the Muslim village of Nezlet Abed, near the pilgrimage site at Giebel Al Teir, had been chopped into pieces by local farmers. Local Christians claim the tree was 2000 year old and...
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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.