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Date of source: Sunday, February 18, 2001
The priest of the Hanging Church denied that he had been reconciled with the Minister of Culture or that he had withdrawn the lawsuits he filed against him in their dispute over the restorations of the church. He added that rains had exposed defects in the restorations and that was why the two...
Date of source: Sunday, January 28, 2001
Mina Badi’a Abdel Malik wrote Watani that most of the priests are now preoccupied with architectural, social or medical projects and are not concentrating on their main duty of caring for their flock. The author explained that when the restoration work started in the Hanging Church, he asked the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 30, 2000
The author of this article criticized the priest of the hanging church saying that he should "be patient and wise and never insinuate the bad intentions and conspiracy, as the monument is important to all of us." He considered the problem to be a normal routine case caused by a lack of funds to...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 to Saturday, September 23, 2000
[Also on Al-Akhbar, September 23, 2000. Author not mentioned]
Maha Abdel Fatah wrote on September 20 about the concerns of the priest of the Hanging Church. He had the right to complain about the bad situation of the church but it is the duty of the Minister to do something about it. He, however,...
Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2000
The reactions to the contradictory stands of the priest of the Hanging Church continue. While he was inciting public opinion, the committee for the restoration affirmed that the restoration was correct. He asked some archaeologists to join the fifth column and criticize the project, but...
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2000
A recent article issued by a cultural magazine made Father Morqos Aziz Khalil, priest of the Hanging Church sent a protest to the Supreme Council for Journalism, because, he said, the article attacked Christians and Christianity in a very offensive and humiliating way.
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
Talking about the emigrant Copts is a very difficult subject because the newspapers have dealt with them from one point of view and they classified them with the extremists, and traitors against their country. They had also mentioned that they were agents [for foreign powers] and so on. The truth...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
The author of this article challenges some of the statements made by Reverend Father Makarious Youssef of the Church of St. George in Abu Qurqas in an interview with a foreign news agency.
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
... Love is the essence of life which attracts us to work, movement and exert effort. Love reconciles us to the hard way and encourages us in troubles. These are the principles of love in Christianity and Islam. I hope that the followers of both religions might pray in order to achieve this...
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 1999
Nowadays, we realize that there are some newspapers which have specialized in discussing the internal affairs of the Coptic Church in public. The Coptic Church will not accept interference from anybody under the guise of protecting the whole nation. The Copts have respected the privacy of the...
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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.