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Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2000
The next parliamentary elections in Egypt will be the last chance for the government to establish a national coherence, and to renew trust in political reform. Copts are now more interested in political participation, as they became aware of the danger of their political isolation, so that the...
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2000
For three days, Al-Khanka had lived in nervousness after a sit-in-strike, by Copts inside a Church which was closed ten years ago, threatened to cause communal unrest. The published report tells of the crisis, and the wise role of Pope Shenouda who was responsible for it ending peacefully.
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2000 to Saturday, April 29, 2000
Happy year to all of you as today is one of the five main feasts for Christians in Egypt. These are five days for which we fight every year. We have asked several times for the feasts of the Copts to be considered official holidays for the whole country, this would conquer many negative aspects...
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2000 to Saturday, April 29, 2000
Pope Shenouda III reacted to the American allegation of discrimination against the Christian minority in Egypt, in a dialogue with the Egyptian writer Sanaa El Said, which was published in her book "Pope Shenouda’s world and religion". The pope refused the law of "Religious Persecution" issued in...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
This woman opened the door in the passageway of the courts of personal status, for tortured Christian women to get a divorce. F.F., a Coptic businesswoman, took a short cut to divorce by asking for the [Islamic] Khula’ law to be applied to her according to the new personal status law, after...
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2000
Dr. Emara summarized in five points his opinion regarding the controversial article "Islam’s stand towards Christian and Jewish faith" by Magdy Hussein, Chief editor of Al Saab newspaper. They are related in full in the article.
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2000
The comment of Dr. Yehya Hashem Fargal on the article "Islam’s stand towards Christian and Jewish faith" by Magdy Hussein, chief editor of Al Shaab newspaper, was followed by another comment of General Mohamed Shebl, which was published on April 14th, 2000. The author of the present article made...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2000
The government has ignored the fulfillment of the President’s orders concerning compensation for the victims in spite of the great losses many citizens suffered in Al-Kosheh, Dar Al-Salaam, and some of the neighboring villages. The losses amounted to a quarter of a million pounds in some shops and...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 18, 2000
Recently, Egypt has witnessed an honest and great competition between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. We have found that the Christian is donating for building a mosque and the Muslim is donating for restoring a church for the Copts.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 18, 2000
Archbishop Lotfy Liham, the general deputy patriarch for the Greek Catholics in Jerusalem confirmed that Muslims and Christians are suffering a lot in the Holy city. The blockade that is imposed upon the city makes the city isolated from the rest of the country. It is bad enough that Palestinians...
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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.