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Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2000
Happy New Year to all Egyptians, may they all be well. Happy New Year, and may the whole world be in peace, filled with goodness and always growing. Our feasts interlace this year creating an atmosphere filled with warmth and happiness. By the end of the week, we celebrate Christmas. With it, or...
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 1999
While government officials in Egypt worked day and night, and spent 35 million pounds, not on building or repairing schools, houses, or monuments damaged by earthquakes, not on health insurance or founding jobs for the unemployed who are increasing daily; but on the celebration of the "Third...
Date of source: Saturday, December 25, 1999
Pope Shenouda III invited several government and Muslim dignitaries amongst others to the National Unity Breakfast hosted by himself at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral this week. One of the guests, Dr. Sayyed Tantawi, Sheikh of Al-Azhar congratulated Muslims and Christians on the incidence of having...
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 1999
Bishop Qolta expresses his thoughts on the Muslim month of Ramadan, and says there is a need for a new Islamic jurisprudence as well as a pressing need for a new Christian theology. "... Religious men all over the world have to work hard in searching for a new form for the relations between their...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 1999
The Muslim people yesterday marked the mid-Sha’ban Night (Sha’ban being one of the 12 months of the Hijra calendar). However, some people believe that the mid-Sha’ban Night ceremony is bed’aa (a religious ceremony not practiced or recommended by Prophet Mohammed).
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999
This article is a translation of "The faculty recruiting ’extremists’ " in Rose Al-Youssef, July 3, 1999, by Wa’el Al-Abrashi and was covered in last week’s RNSAW.
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 1999
Minister of Waqfs, Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouk announced that the Islamic world would reassess its position during the Islamic conference to be held on June 22, 1999 in Cairo.
The Al-Azhar and the Ministry of Waqfs has contributed one million pounds to Kosovo refugees.
A new Islamic center costing...
Date of source: Saturday, April 3, 1999 to Friday, April 9, 1999
Sheikhs who had denounced many intellectuals and creative minds as apostates have now started to pronounce each other as apostates. New is the apostasy campaign waged against Dr. Nosseir is because she says that in this era women have become ministers and prime ministers as well as university...
Date of source: Sunday, March 28, 1999
The Coptic Orthodox Pope, meeting the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, stressed the "spirit of love, harmony and brotherhood that characterizes relationships between Egyptian people throughout history ... that succeeded in containing and overcoming attempts at creating divisions between Egyptians."
Date of source: Friday, February 5, 1999
Dr. Isma`il Al-Diftar spoke in an interview about Da’awa, Islamic mission. "The enemies of Islam are trying to confuse Muslims by telling lies and trying to prove them." About arguing with believers from other religions he says: "We have to be careful and get to know our religion well. If I am...
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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.