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Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2006
The recent crisis between
Watanī newspaper and
the Church seems to be conciliated after a meeting between the two parties. The
meeting resulted in the
agreement that Watanī will stick to the ecumenical line of the Church far
from any sectarian
or denominational lines that might contradict the...
Date of source: Thursday, September 28, 2006
This article shows that bishop Bīshūy does
not like the approach of Rose al-
Yūsuf newspaper and wants Copts to boycott it, which is viewed
by Copts as reversion in the church’s
reform.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 28, 2006
The
recent decision of the People’s Assembly to ban ‘The Da Vinci Code’ has provoked
considerable
controversy amongst Egyptian intellectuals, dividing opinions between those who defended the
movie on grounds of
freedom of expression and those who condemned it as blasphemous and misleading.
Date of source: Thursday, June 8, 2006
The author interviews two Christians, Dr.
Girgis Kāmil Yousif and Jamāl
As‘ad ‘Abd al-Malāk, on the phenomenon of
the banning of books inside the Orthodox
Church in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 5, 2003
In light of the latest reports about Islamic religious institutions and its authority to ban religious books, the author comments on the freedom of expression within the church and the role Christian religious institutions play in that respect.
Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2006
This press review dwells on the controversy caused by a project to produce an Egyptian movie about the life of Jesus Christ which has prompted outcries from both the Azhar and the Coptic Church.
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2005
Al-Musawwar magazine is publishing part of Fathī Ghānim’s novel Bint Min Shubrā [A girl from Shubrā], whose adaptation as a TV series drew a recent controversy.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 19, 2000
The first Coptic weekly appeared in 1892 and it was called "The weekly religion bulletin." After that other Coptic magazines appeared. The major aim of most Coptic magazines is religious. They are published in a weak artistic and journalistic form because of their low cost as they depend only on...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 8, 2000
The debate around the problems of Copts in Egypt is one of the most important issues that is raised every now and then. Accordingly, I have preferred to write about the situation of Copts in Egypt by defining certain points that are the core of these problems. Dealing with these points will help...
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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.