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Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
The rights of Egyptian Bahā’
īs have recently been a subject of heated debate
in the Egyptian media. A number of Bahā’ī
leaders have tried to reach out to officials from the
Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), in an
attempt to establish a “legal framework” which
would solve...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 12, 2003
The article sheds light on some underground religious groups in the US.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Some satellite channels still don’t see the difference between screening entertainment and religious shows. The Arab viewer who longed for religious reform is subjected to a new wave of religious extremism. He lived for decades as victim of religious fundamentalist rhetoric not able to adapt to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 7, 2006
The author reviews the Holy Synod elections and the argument over the conditions for voting.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2006
A Mexican-born priest once alleged that Jesus Christ met him on January 1, 1976 and personally asked him to pick "a beautiful bride" for him. He said that Jesus has settled in a simple house in the Arizona desert. Between 1970 to 1994, 257,000 people have emerged in the United States with similar...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 6, 2005
The issue of whether women are allowed to be head of state has caused deep rifts within the Egyptian Islamic and political circles and outraged a number of feminist activists.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Many think that the extremist Christian Right is more dangerous than Bin Lādin and al-Zawahirī. This is true because Bin Laden is an extremist Muslim who does not organize policies of the Islamic and Arab world while the Christian Right has the power to formulate Western policy, especially that of...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 2004
The attitude of
the US Commission on International Religious Freedom in speaking of the rights of certain
religious minorities, described by the Commission as being ostracized and unrecognized, is
strange. In the United States, certain religious groups do not enjoy the right of “living in
peace...
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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.