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Date of source: Saturday, August 13, 2005 to Friday, August 19, 2005
A recent rumor about a girl in the Rast ān state of the Sultanate of Oman, who has turned into a monster the moment she took a copy of the Qur’ ān, which her mother was reciting it and threw it on the floor, has proven to be untrue. The girl has been admitted to the Sult ān ī hospital in Muscat.
Date of source: Saturday, January 20, 2001 to Friday, January 26, 2001
Protestant churches declared that there are still evil spirits that possess people and there are gifted people in the church who can free people form them. Pastor Samy Henin said in a new book that this is a superstition. He said that people possessed by evil spirits have ceased to be since Jesus...
Date of source: Sunday, September 2, 2012
Sheikha Nadia, a female sheikh, has developed treatment against diseases with magic and jinns. Azhar scholars, however, don’t believe in her way of curing since is not even able to read the Qur’an correctly.
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Although the authorities frown upon the practice, exorcists, clairvoyants and sorcerers are enjoying a growing business in a poor country [Egypt] where the wealth gap is widening, sociologists say.
Date of source: Friday, August 6, 1999
Together with hundreds of patients, Abdel Hamid Al-Missawi, popular as Sheikh Abdel Hamid, believes that he can cure a variety of illness, psychic problems and also drive out evil spirits that may haunt people.
Date of source: Friday, August 6, 1999
Youssef Badawi whipped the young woman across her shoulders in another effort to drive away the evil genies that he said possessed his patient.
Date of source: Monday, July 27, 1998
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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.