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Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 1999
Sidhom discussed a few months ago the subject of establishing a section for Coptic studies in the Egyptian university to teach Coptic language, Coptic history, and Coptic civilization because this is considered an important part of Egypt’s history and present too. The discussion was reopened in...
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 1999
If permits for building churches are given are they carried out? The author gives one example where this was not the case.
Date of source: Monday, October 18, 1999
The annual report about religious freedom around the world was issued last month by the American State Department. According to the report, the efforts of the American administration to support religious freedom does not aim at public disclosure of the violations of religious freedom all over the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 1999
The detailed [US] report on Egypt states that the Egyptian constitution ensures the freedom of belief and the right to exercise the religious rituals within certain limitations portrayed by the state.
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 1999
Youssef Sidhom discusses the report Religious Freedom in the world. Many governments have pledged not to resort to any means of discrimination between its citizens based on religion. Despite this, there are some countries where there is a difference between pledges and practices, where religious...
Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 1999
Youssef Sidhom, editor-in-chief of the Coptic weekly Watani shows his high regard for President Mubarak.
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
The truth should be known but the situation in Egypt remaining fixed in non-transparency resulting in public mistrust of whatever comes from the official mass media sources in their country. Thus we loose our trustworthiness, and in addition we contribute in the creation of an environment conducive...
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
President Mubarak stated that he will not hesitate to further any changes that will strengthen the participation of civil society in developing the country. We should neither under-estimate this opportunity, nor should we look down cynically on ourselves, because we may think that we alone cannot...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
In the secular societies, religion is not considered as one of the main foundations on which the country, its constitution, and principal law are based. Accordingly, all the citizens of this country will not feel any discrimination whether they are Christians, Muslims or Jews. But if the society...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
The hopes and expectations for Mubarak’s coming period of presidency are summarized by a well known Christian columnist.
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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.