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Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, March 9, 2001
Political leaders and officials worked out a solution to a problem resulting from a local authority’s demolition of a four-story church annex building. The building was used for church services, as a small hospital and a meeting place. There are almost fourteen thousand Christian families in this...
Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2001
The governor of Sohag hosted a group of immigrant Australian Copts led by the priest of the Coptic Church in Australia. The priest of Tahta and Juhayna said that the aim of the visit was to correct the world’s vision of Egypt, which had been damaged by the foreign media.
Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2001
Public opinion’s reaction towards the ruling given in Al-Kosheh action was inconsistent. Those who have a legal background understood the recitals and the reasons of the sentences, but the public, who have no legal background, were deeply shocked by them. The sentences passed have two aspects; the...
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2001
The verdict given in the action of Al-Kosheh has caused a strong line of division between Egypt’s Muslims and Christians. Most Muslims accept the impartiality of the court while many Christians, inside and outside Egypt, expressed their anger in articles, letters and interviews about the verdict....
Date of source: Saturday, February 24, 2001 to Friday, March 2, 2001
The author points out the discrepancy between the principles, the Brotherhood claim to follow and their practices; the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood wrote in his autobiography that they received funds from the foreign manager of the Suez Canal Company. The author believes they would have...
Date of source: Saturday, February 17, 2001
Judge Mohammed Afifi, who gave the ruling in Al-Kosheh action, said that the sentences relating to the twenty Christian people, who died in the incidents, were ratified. Bishop Wissa said that the church leaders had confidence in the judicial system and that they would not enjoy their rights...
Date of source: Friday, February 2, 2001
The Grand Sheikh of the Azhar said that meetings between Muslims and Christians always serve justice by supporting victims of injustice, especially as all heavenly religions call for cooperation, justice and virtue. He said this during his meeting with Gregorios Laham, the Catholic Patriarch of...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 30, 2001
The administration of Human Rights in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a meeting with the head of the office for religious freedom of the United States. The discussion was about the meaning of religious freedom. There was a tangible change in Americans’ perception of the Egyptian social fiber...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
The Egyptian delegation attending meetings of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Germany, declared that Egypt had the right to know about all of the WCC’s decisions. The Bishop of the Egyptian Orthodox Church in Germany said that Pope Shenouda’s instructions were to represent Egypt’s Muslims...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 24, 2001
Pope Shenouda said that those who visited Jerusalem were not loyal to him and to Christ because they did not respect his decree, which prevents them from going. He added that he is the only representative of Copts and the one who defends them, so they must obey him. The pope explained that this...
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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.