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Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 1999 to Friday, June 18, 1999
The devil of the sectarian strife is Maurice Sadek. Sadek in turn accuses the Coptic Orthodox Church to behind the stories about young Coptic girls by mentioning Dr. Nabila Mikhael, a member of the Maglis el-Milli(the General Church Council), who is also working at the secretariat of H.H. Pope...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 1999 to Friday, May 28, 1999
In Alexandria, Mohammed Ibrahim Mahfouz, an ex-chairman of an Alexandria maritime company and the holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, claims to be God and the prophet Mohammed. He says people should pray towards him, and that the Hajj can be made at his apartment instead of going to Makkah...
Date of source: Saturday, April 10, 1999 to Friday, April 16, 1999
Following the spread of the rumor of appearances of the Virgin Mary at the Coptic Orthodox Church in Al-Minya Al-Qamh, Al-Sharqeyya Governorate, Pope Shenouda called for an investigation. The committee concluded that there have not been appearances.
Date of source: Saturday, March 27, 1999
Sub-Titles: A Christian lawyer accuses the priest of deviating from Christianity because of an [newspaper] article.
A response to the view of a Coptic priest who rejects adoption because of its pagan, Byzantine origin: a first inside the Coptic Church, last week a lawyer filed a lawsuit demanding...
Date of source: Monday, February 22, 1999 to Sunday, February 28, 1999
The article is an attack on the Coptic Orthodox refusal to accept the baptism of the Coptic Catholic and Coptic Evangelical churches in Egypt. However, claims are made that Orthodox priests say are factually not true. Some Orthodox priests were consulted and their comments are found in the...
Date of source: Monday, January 18, 1999
The Vatican International Family Conference, organized for the first time in Cairo, witnessed a heated discussion on more heated issues, from abortion, artificial insemination and homosexuality to female circumcision.
Date of source: Monday, January 11, 1999
Maximus Hakim is Patriarch of the Greek Catholic Church in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and the rest of the Arab countries. Patriarch Hakim was born in Egypt and then went to Palestine where he stayed until the 1967 war. He says he does not think the Israelis would be committed to...
Date of source: Monday, January 4, 1999
Marriage does not take place during the fasting seasons, which are from the last week of November till January 7 (43 days), and between February and April (55 days) in addition to fasting periods depending on the Coptic calendar. These fasting periods cause a rush in marriage ceremonies after the...
Date of source: Monday, October 19, 1998
Preparations are currently underway to celebrate the passage of 2,000 years since Christ’s birth. The preparations are being made by the Coptic Church and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism.
Date of source: Monday, July 27, 1998
An extended meeting will be held for the generation of the 70s next September. The meeting will include representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Nasserists, the Marxists and the Liberals.
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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.