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Date of source: Monday, December 27, 2004
Jesus Christ advised his followers not to love riches because he knew what money could do to the human soul. For Christ, love of money is the source of all evil. Yet, many men of the Church have disregarded this advice and embraced to a love of riches.
Date of source: Sunday, March 6, 2005
Earlier this month, writer and intellectual Tareq al-Bishri wrote in the Cairo weekly al – Osbou [al-Usbouc] that about a billion dollars find their way into the Coptic Church’s coffers every year. No one, he wrote, even remotely knows how these funds are spent, since the Church behaves as a...
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2005
The North Cairo Court is now considering a dispute about a trade transaction viewed by many as strange because one of the parties to the legal dispute is Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark. Clergy are not supposed to conduct such translations.
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2005
Judge Tāriq al-Bishrī wrote a number of articles on the issue of Coptic-Muslim relations in different newspapers and magazines including: al-Usbouc, Afāq ‘Arabīya and Al-Ahrām al-‘Arabī. In my article, I will comment on some points that Judge al-Bishrī raised previously.
Date of source: Monday, February 21, 2005
Some expressed their desire that the Central Authority [for Public Mobilization and] Statistics (CAPMAS) supervise the funds of all churches and submit a report of each church to the People’s Assembly because the CAPMAS is affiliated to the Parliament. But in fact, the funds of the Church could not...
Date of source: Monday, February 7, 2005
What authority does the Central Auditing Agency (CAA) have over the various ecclesiastical institutions? It is known that the Azhar as well as its faculties and institutes are placed under the supervision of the CAA. All professional syndicates, chambers of commerce and industry are also considered...
Date of source: Monday, October 4, 2004
Throughout the history of the Orthodox Church patriarchs have been using the right to defrock priests and punish bishops and monks in order to protect the Church teachings or to stop heretics. In the very modern history of the Church, many persons have been subjected to these punishments. Several...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Pope Shenouda appointed the son of his nephew as an accountant in the Bishopric for Ecumenical and Social Services. Some people claimed that the pope appointed him in the Bishopric so he could later take over the post of the director of the Patriarchal office. This made them believe that there is...
Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2001
A number of Coptic lawyers filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Interior to oblige him to register the uniforms of the Coptic Orthodox clergy and to have the wearing of it by anyone but a priest or a monk considered a crime.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Seven Coptic lawyers field a lawsuit against the Minister of Interior to oblige him to register the uniform of Coptic Orthodox clergymen and to consider wearing it by anyone but a priest or a monk a crime.
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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.