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Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 2004
The West has no relationship to religions in the way that we see [religions] in the East. There is a tiny minority who live a life of real faith amidst the mud and the majority who do not adhere to religion. This is in addition to the West’s biased attitude with regard to the Pasliswtinian-Israeli...
Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 2004
Jews believe in an oral tradition that was passed down from Moses, which they also consider the words of God. These oral traditions were written down in books, starting with the Mishna and the Talmud. For the Jews, the study of the Talmud has become very important. The laws and the legislation have...
Date of source: Thursday, May 6, 2004
According to the Talmud, if the mother of a child is a Jew, then the child is Jewish. Otherwise, the child is not considered Jewish. However, in 1983, the Higher Institute for Reformist Rabbis held a meeting after which it was decided that if the father of a child is Jewish and the mother is not,...
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 2004
There are three main principles that determine the Jewish identity: Worshipping one God; practicing certain rituals that reflect the Jewish beliefs, like announcing his faith in one God; and the loyalty of the Jew to his being a Jew and loyalty to the rest of the Jewish nation.
Date of source: Monday, May 24, 2004
Last week, Al-Midan printed an article under the title “Beware ‘The passion of the Christ’” by one of those who offend religions. The writings of this person reflects the hatred and fury filling his heart. The author attacks the film regarding it an attempt to Christianize Muslims. In his attack on...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 2004
The author of the article published in the newspaper of Al-Midan under the title “Beware of the movie “The Passion of the Christ.,” like many other unknowledgeable writers, accused Christians of unbelief. Some people mistakenly believe that Christianity is a religion of multiple gods. Those people...
Date of source: Sunday, April 17, 2005
An article was published in a newspaper about how the Christian woman, under Pope Shenouda III, has fallen prey to unjust human intervention that amended the rule of court of the year 1938. This amendment pertains to the Orthodox Coptic divorce, which deprives thousands of people of remarrying and...
Date of source: Thursday, February 26, 2004
Sawt Al-Umma published a false statement that was attributed to engineer Michael
Mounir, president of the U.S. Copts Association, saying that the association asked the U.S. to
occupy Egypt militarily.
The newspaper has published a provocative reportage titled
“Coptic émigrés are asking for the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 6, 2005
The Church is celebrating every March 9 the anniversary of the departure of Pope Kirollos VI and the virtuous heritage he left in the Church.
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2005
When God first created man he meant him to be happy so he put him in paradise and gave him feasts like Christmas and Epiphany to rest and have fun. Fortunately this year Epiphany and Greater Bairam synchronized.
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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.