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Date of source: Saturday, February 14, 2009 to Friday, February 20, 2009
This article is a special present to those who want to ignite the sectarian fires. Its hero is the Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, the Greek Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem, who dedicated himself to defending the Palestinian issue.
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2009 to Friday, January 30, 2009
Fashion designers are using the image of the Virgin Mary in their new designs. The author presents two controversial fashion shows and the cover of Mexican Playboy as examples. The Catholic Church condemned the use of the Holy Virgin and Playboy apologized.
Date of source: Saturday, June 14, 2008 to Friday, June 20, 2008
A Book review of ’Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church’, a book by a retired bishop dealing with the scandal surrounding the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic church.
Date of source: Saturday, April 12, 2008 to Friday, April 18, 2008
Muná Bakr reports on a study that is underway at Oxford University that raises the issue of whether people tend to adopt religion because it is part of natural human development or whether it is a matter of upbringing.
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2007
The author reviews a book about Egyptians’ traditions and customs authored by Sāmyah ‘Abd al-Nūr entitled, “Egyptian Customs and Festivals.”
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
There are about ten thousand
religions all over the world. This article ranks
them in terms of number of religious adherents and describes where
the majority of each religion is to be
found.
Date of source: Saturday, July 29, 2006 to Friday, August 4, 2006
The author outlines the life of al-Mulā
‘Umar, the official leader of the Tālibān movement, and his mysterious
character.
Date of source: Saturday, September 27, 2003 to Friday, October 3, 2003
Last March, the CIA in cooperation with the Pakistani police succeeded in arresting Kuwaiti terrorist Khaled Muhammad Sheikh, whom US authorities consider the master mind of the September 11 attacks. The article covers the most important confessions he gave in the investigation the CIA conducted...
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 2004 to Friday, December 3, 2004
US biologist Dean H. Hamer tries in his book The God Gene to focus on the issue of how faith is linked to our genes as he alleges that there are some genes responsible for man’s interest in spiritual aspects.
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2006 to Friday, February 10, 2006
Muna Bakr says Islamic groups that cheered at the victory of the Turkish Islamic Refah Party did not notice that party’s program is basically secular.
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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.