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Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Otto Meinardus, a leading authority on the Coptic Church, wrote a new book called ’Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity’. The present work is a compact hardback publication which, according to the cover, is "a new, definite, one-volume history for the Millennium, surveying the twenty centuries...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
The Egyptian private sector is taking the lead in restoring the Holy Family sites which are being promoted as a destination for religious tourism in June 2000. On 1 June next year, modern-day pilgrims from around the globe will follow the route the Holy Family took from Sinai through the Delta to...
Date of source: Friday, June 25, 1999
Yesterday the Orthodox Coptic Church was celebrating an important occasion, commemorating the arrival of the remains of the great Saint Marcus from Rome. Tomorrow, the church will celebrate that the remains were put in the Cathedral.
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999
Al-Wafd newspaper has finished its tour in Upper Egypt, in particular visiting the governorate of Al-Minya and Assiut and some of the monasteries there. And what it has found is shocking. The tour showed the degree of carelessness suffered by the officials in the Ministry of Culture. The officials...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 16, 1999
The author describes a visit to pharaonic, Christian and Islamic sites in the governorates of Assiut and Sohag.
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 1999 to Saturday, June 12, 1999
An article describing the route of the Holy Family.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 1, 1999
The author points to the importance of Egypt in the Biblical history and that many of God’s great men once took refuge in Egypt. He outlines the Coptic tradition of the route of the Holy Family during their time in Egypt and suggests that the sites that were visited by the Holy Family should be...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 1999
Mir Qibly is an Egyptian village which lies in the heart of the Qasqam mountain which is near Assiut in Upper Egypt. This is where the Holy Family lived for one hundred and eighty-five days in order to avoid King Herod who was hunting for them.
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
The governor of Al-Minya governorate talks to Rose El-Youssef magazine about the current state of communal relations between Muslims and Copts, as well as fundamentalism and fanaticism in the governorate.
Date of source: Sunday, April 18, 1999
Dr. Mamdouh Al-Biltagi, minister of tourism says that it there is much interest by tourists worldwide in the route taken in Egypt by the Holy Family, especially as the Millennium celebrations draw near.
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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.