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Date of source: Friday, October 12, 2007
Coptic layman activist Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá calls for an objective discussion of the problems resulting from the activities of some Coptic expatriate groups. He stresses the importance of the government’s foreign policy stance that should, via its embassies, defend Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2007
Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá calls to hold a scientific conference on the level of international academic Orthodox institutions in order to discuss debatable issues between the laymen’s front and leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Friday, September 21, 2007
The Coptic Orthodox Church needs to modernize its management mechanisms, education, legislation, and rituals in order to move from the individual style of leadership in the church to the collective one, which was adopted by the church during the Enlightenment.
Date of source: Monday, September 17, 2007
The author responds to an interview with Bishop Marqus, the spokesperson of the Coptic Orthodox Church, released by al-Fajr newspaper about the relationship between the church and laymen.
Date of source: Friday, August 31, 2007
Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá discusses a suggestion from thinker Samīr Marqus who has asked for a committee to examine the inclinations of individuals who intend to convert from one religion to another. Mūsá, however, refers to the absence of concepts of citizenship and civil state as the main roots of the...
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2007
Coptic thinker Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá refers to the changes that have taken place in the Egyptian society concerning the relations between Muslims and Christians, believing that relations in the past were better. He emphasizes the importance of tolerance and love between different communities in one...
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2007
Laymen believe that the Coptic Orthodox Church does not have real laws and relies on legal texts scattered in the fathers’ books and the researches that were written in different eras. A number of their proposed reforms are discussed in this article.
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2007
Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá calls for the amendment to the Coptic patriarch election regulations and to adjust them to the sound church rules which confine the nomination for the papal chair to monks who did not earn their Episcopal degree.
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2007
Kamāl Zākhir Musá writes about the idea of
faith according to Father Mattá al-Miskīn. According to Mattá al-Miskīn, believing in Jesus Christ means
“getting in touch with God.” This means that Jesus Christ transfers his power to the soul in order to believe and get
in touch with both God and the...
Date of source: Friday, June 8, 2007
The Coptic Orthodox Church is faced with potentially destabilizing questions. Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá highlights the leading role of the press in reporting on the Coptic issues and calls for guarantees of objectivity in the press to avoid the eruption of more sectarian tensions.
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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.