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Date of source: Saturday, December 16, 2000
The author recounts how cheerfully Christmas used to be celebrated in the village of Taybeh, which is the only all Christian Palestinian village in the Holy Land. However, Christmas this year will be depressing and sad because there will be no Christmas celebrations this year in respect for the...
Date of source: Sunday, December 24, 2000
A Russian newspaper wrote that during the four months of the heavenly luminous apparitions of the Holy Virgin ten thousands of visitors gathered around and in the church. It said that the fasting of Muslims and Christians together added a climate of cheerfulness in the slum area where the church...
Date of source: Thursday, December 21, 2000
Pope Shenouda and many Muslim religious men received a great number of inquiries and criticisms about the series of "Awan Al-Ward." Christians believe that the series presents the issue of the marriage between a Muslim man and a Christian woman as a matter that should be accepted by Christians out...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 12, 2000
The article in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, December 6, was based in a press release of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an American Muslim group defending the civil rights of Muslims in the USA. CAIR declared its support for a Christian woman who wanted to wear what she believes to be a...
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
This is the text of a lecture delivered in London by the general administrator of the Latin Catholic Church in Jerusalem, Father William Shomali, representing Latin Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabah of Jerusalem, during the investiture of the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulcher of England and...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Pope John Paul II encourages the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land and the leaders of the Christian communities, to renew their efforts to ensure that relationships between all are inspired by mutual respect, in humility and trust. He also appeals to Jewish and...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 15, 2000
Father Raed Abusahlieh, Chancellor of the Latin Patriarch, instituted a personal information service per e-mail. He selected with Harry Hagopian the title for this advocacy and interpretation service. Their choice fell on the olive tree, associated with Jesus’ Passion as much as being a universal...
Date of source: Sunday, November 5, 2000
The author writes about peace in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He recounted how Jews, Christians and Muslims, met in the Latin (Roman Catholic) Church of Beit Sahour, on the 5th of November 1989 despite a closure of the area in order to pray for peace and wishes this were possible today.
Date of source: Friday, November 10, 2000
The news of awarding Pope Shenouda the international Madzent Sing Prize for tolerance by the UNESCO came during a moment of overflowing sadness and confusion caused by the injustice and violence our Palestinian brothers are facing. Pope Shenouda was awarded the prize because he "is a religious...
Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2000
In Jordan, archaeologists have discovered a place, in the region of green hills and springs, which is said to be really the place where John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ. It is worth mentioning that before this discovery it was said that Christ was baptized on the West Bank of the river...
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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.