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Date of source: Saturday, June 10, 2006 to Friday, June 16, 2006
Archpriest Marqus ‘Azīz Khalīl refutes allegations by
Dan Brown, the
author of the novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’, that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and had
children with her,
asserting that Christianity stands on the important pillar of the Divine Being of Christ
and thus it is never...
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
The Azhar has published a book called Mulāhadhāt
‘Ilmīya ‘Ala Kitāb al-Masīh fi al-Islām [Reviewer: Scientific
notes on the book of Christ in Islam] by Dr. Muhammad ‘Umāra. “Who carried the cross upon
which
Jesus was crucified, Christ or Simon of Cyrene?” and the number of thieves who were...
Date of source: Monday, April 3, 2006
Father Marqus ‘Azīz denies having spoken on behalf of the pope regarding the Egyptian movie about Christ.
Date of source: Thursday, December 25, 2003
In the second article about fasting, Father Marcos stresses the importance of abstaining from pronouncing bad words during fasting: “Do not say that you are fasting truly while your tongue is not fasting [abstaining from pronouncing bad words]”.
Date of source: Monday, December 22, 2003
Father Marcos Aziz Khalil argues that the kind of fasting the Coptic Church observes, which involves abstention from food and drink for a certain period of the day and then eating vegetarian non-fat food, is not a human-made order but a divine one. God made this order Himself and it was written...
Date of source: Thursday, December 11, 2003
The article is about fasting and its spiritual significance. The total number of days of fasting in the Coptic Orthodox Church is 239 days per year. This means that Copts fast two thirds of the year.
Date of source: Thursday, December 4, 2003
Citing verses from the “Gospel of Barnabas,” the Holy Bible and the Qur’an, Father Marcos Aziz Khalil verifies that the counterfeited gospel contradicts with the both the Holy Bible and the Qur’an.
Date of source: Thursday, November 20, 2003
The article is a response to an article published in the weekly magazine of Rose Al-Youssef under the title “Barnabas, the author of the prohibited book.” With the aim of verifying that the gospel of Barnabas is not an authentic gospel, the author mentions the history of the gospel, quotations from...
Date of source: Thursday, November 13, 2003
On the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the accession of Pope Shenouda to the throne of Saint Mark, the author provides answers to questions over the status of the Patriarch of the Coptic church, his titles and rituals of ordination.
Date of source: Thursday, November 6, 2003
Al-Midan published five articles, four by Coptic priests, attacking Habeel Tawfiq Sa’id, an ex-wine dealer who founded a new Christian denomination which he called the Sons of Paul the Apostle. Sa’id declared himself the pope of the new denomination.
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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.