Date of source: Thursday, September 15, 2005
A paper presented at the annual interfaith dialogue meeting of the Anglican communion and the Permanent Committee of the Azhar al-Sharif for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions that prompted criticism from Metropolitan Seraphim for the portrayal of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2005
When a police officer refused to obey superiors’ orders and divorce his Coptic wife, he claims that the Ministry of the Interior framed him, accusing him of stealing a gun and a car. He was acquitted by the South Cairo Court in September.
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2006
The author discusses the story of a Christian woman whose husband married four other women by changing his denomination each time. The wife says she obtained a divorce from court but the church is adamantly refusing to acknowledge the court ruling.
Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2006
Ibrāhim ‘Abd al-Shahīd Sidhum was sentenced to death over the alleged murder of his wife and a microbus driver after his reported voluntarily conversion to Islam. Three years after the verdict had been given, and a few weeks before the implementation of the death penalty, a video was found showing...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
A look into the reasons behind the media storm over conversions of young women and girls from Islam to Christianity and vice versa
Date of source: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
In Fathī Ghānim’s famous novel Bint Min Shubrā [A girl from Shubrā], a Muslim man, Karīm Safwān, says, "Shubrā can never be Shubrā without Sainte Teresa." Asked by the Christian woman Maria Sandro whether he knows Saint Teresa, Safwān replies that: "My mother told me that her brother Bassyounī goes...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 19, 2005
When King Fārouq’s sister, Fatihīya, married a Christian, Riād Ghālī, the Coptic church remained silent. The article argues that both Christianity and Islam prohibit such marriages.
Date of source: Monday, September 26, 2005
Coptic siblings, who were officially registered as Muslims after their father converted to Islam and divorced their mother, have filed a lawsuit demanding the correction of their names and religion data.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
The story of the film “The Athirst [thirsty] Kiss”
is about a second generation Pakistani Muslim who falls in love with an English Catholic girl. I
believe the film’s realistic idea and its courageousness in conveying it is much stronger than
any dialogue between civilizations.
Date of source: Thursday, January 6, 2005
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III is an extremely wise and intellectual man, a unique person who knows and understands a lot. He has a long living memory that goes back in history.