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Date of source: Friday, November 7, 2008
The article sheds light on a demonstration held by a group of Mīt Namā’s residents protesting against being whipped out of their land. The piece of land was meant to hold a building for church services. The furious crowd wanted to meet the pope but did not succeed.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The author calls on Christians to stop complaining that the government does not allow them to build churches or form charity associations. He says they should start adopting the spirit of forgiveness, love and brotherhood between Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Sunday, October 26, 2008
The author addresses the lone dissenting view, against bringing the unified law for constructing places of worship before the parliament. The author shows why the dissenter, Darbi’s, view that raising this law in parliament will cause too much of a stir and is irreverent to Muslim sharī‘ah which...
Date of source: Sunday, August 3, 2008
The article discusses a lawsuit filed by the Evangelical church in Egypt to secure rights to build churches in new settlements.
Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 2008
The NCHR has proposed a unified law for houses of worship.
Date of source: Sunday, October 19, 2008
Watanī presents different opinions toward the draft unified law for houses of worship. The opinions include those of members of parliament and Shūrá Council members.
Date of source: Sunday, October 12, 2008
In the last three months Watanī newspaper has pushed hard for the unified law for building houses of worship to be discussed in the parliament. In this article Watanī presents a collection of opinions of members of parliament toward the proposed law.
Date of source: Sunday, June 22, 2008
The article bemoans the fact that at the end of yet another parliamentary session there is still no progress on the unified houses of worship law. A bill was presented to the parliament four years ago and was referred to the housing committee but since then there has been no further developments
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2008
The article comments on the key discussions that took place at the Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination conference that was held in Cairo in April. The conference looked at the various types of discrimination that exist in Egypt, ranging from discrimination in the workplace to the lack of a...
Date of source: Sunday, August 10, 2008
With a review of the relevant laws, the author questions why the bill for the law for building places of worship has been held up in parliament so long, even though there is no procedural impediment to the bill.
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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.