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Date of source: Thursday, March 22, 2001
Report of a short meeting between the RNSAW and the USCIRF which had been arranged through H.G. Bishop Marcos on Wednesday March 21. We explained our work and gave some examples of our reports.
Date of source: Saturday, March 24, 2001
The American Embassy in Cairo invited Mohammed Mursi, the Brotherhood representative in the Parliament, to participate in the meetings of the American Commission for International Religious Freedom. Mursi accepted the invitation, at first, and tried to persuade some of the Brotherhood leaders to...
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2001
This prominent Coptic author tells the US commission good-bye. Muslim-Christian issues are discussed in Egypt and don’t need their interference.
Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2001
The Religious Freedom Commission is not a non-governmental organization. It is an official committee financed by the United States Federal Government. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom [USCIRF] was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 27 January 1998,...
Date of source: Saturday, March 24, 2001 to Friday, March 30, 2001
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom met with Bishop Marcos of Shoubra Al-Kheima and asked him about the rulings given in Al-Kosheh killings, underage Christian girls turning to Islam and about the non-inclusion of the Coptic period in the history syllabus. Coptic Catholic Bishop...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
The Southern Cairo Court found Professor Yehia Ismail Hablush, secretary general of the [Azhar] Scholars Front, not guilty in the case in which his opponent the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar accused him of defamation.
Date of source: Friday, March 23, 2001
The General Administration of Cairo Investigation Office arrested a tailor who claimed to be the Mahdi [awaited-for prophet in Islam]. He claimed that he knew the time of Doomsday, and the secrets of the Holy Qur’an, and he said he was able to explain its verses. He was accused of exploiting...
Date of source: Thursday, March 15, 2001
The Turkish ambassador to Cairo comments on the Armenian’s claims of being persecuted by the Ottaman Empire. He said while the Ottoman Empire was collapsing, the West wanted Turkey to wrongly admit it had persecuted Christian minorities. They also urged the Christian minorities to seek their...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
The Vatican’s Pope intends to pray in the great Umayad mosque in Syria. Still, setting up this papal prayer in this great mosque is not likely to appeal to the Islamic world, it might as well be pictured as an intrusion and an indecent act.
Date of source: Sunday, March 18, 2001
President Mubarak’s rebuilding order will bring back the demolished building belonging to the Bishopric of Shubra Al-Kheima, but will it stop any recurrence of like events anywhere in Egypt? We have heard of no investigation on the event, of no questioning of those behind the demolition order or of...
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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.