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Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article deals with an incident in which a woman wearing a niqāb smashed a number of great works by a fine sculptor after a recent fatwa from the muftī saying that statues are not acceptable from a Muslim point of view.
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2006 to Friday, April 14, 2006
Controversial views from Copts
concerning civil
marriage as a way to avoid problems in obtaining divorce and remarriage licenses from the
Church.
35. Church rejects court ruling switching custody of children from Christian mother to Muslim father
Date of source: Wednesday, March 29, 2006
The Egyptian church is refusing a court ruling allowing a Christian, who converted to Islam, to have custody of his children in favor of their Christian mother, appealing to top Muslim clerics to intervene.
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2006
Ahmad Pasha reports on a recent conflict over a television series that tackled the issue of Muslim-Coptic relations. The series portrays a story of a Muslim family which abandons their child, who is then brought up by a Christian family.
Date of source: Saturday, September 20, 2003 to Friday, September 26, 2003
M.A., a student at the Faculty of Commerce, went to the Faculty mosque for prayers and attending the weekly religious lesson given by another student. She was astonished to see that the student giving the lesson brought a shroud out of her bag, in order to give them a lesson in preparing the dead...
Date of source: Saturday, June 7, 2003 to Friday, June 13, 2003
Many of the traditional icons of the Orthodox Church representing Jesus Christ crucified and the Last Supper have been recently changed. New crucifixion icons show Jesus Christ with nails in his wrists not hands. Judas no longer appears in the new Last Supper icons. The author comments on the...
Date of source: Sunday, September 11, 2005
The Archbishopric of Jīza filed a petition to Pope Shenouda III yesterday requesting that Father Filopātīr Jamīl’s suspension be extended until after the parliamentary elections, but the request has been rejected by the Assembly of Civil Society Organizations.
Date of source: Thursday, August 18, 2005
Coptic Orthodox churches in Canada and eastern America have expressed their support for the National Democratic Party’s (NDP) candidate Husnī Mubārak in the forthcoming presidential elections.
Date of source: Saturday, August 13, 2005 to Friday, August 19, 2005
A court has imprisoned a registrar of marriage contracts for the Evangelical Church at the Ministry of Justice, Yuhann ā Sal īb Girgis, after he was found guilty in the forgery of data in a marriage contract.
Date of source: Saturday, August 13, 2005 to Friday, August 19, 2005
Pope Shenouda has instructed the Committee of Parishes, headed by Bishop Boula, to make new financial regulations to increase the salaries of clergymen, after complaints about financial hardship.
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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.