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Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2001
In his 1982-book "Our Fasts Between the Past and the Present...Their Spiritual Essences and Historical Roots," Father Kyrillos Kyrillos, the priest of Mar Girgis church, in Khamoria, touched upon the issue of fasting in Christianity. He stated that the way the fasts in the Orthodox Church are now...
Date of source: Monday, April 16, 2001
Father Marcos Aziz Khalil, the priest of the Hanging Church, found himself under the guillotine of Bishop Bishoi, the secretary of the Holy Council. This is the first time the priest of the Hanging Church has been referred to trial, in spite of his position and known attitudes towards the church....
Date of source: Tuesday, April 10, 2001
At Pope Shenouda’s weekly Wednesday meeting someone asked him to forgive Father Aghathon, which provoked an angry reaction and various accusations. This article gives Father Aghathon’s response and explains the background to this dispute. Kamal Zakher Musa, a researcher in Coptic affairs also...
Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2001
The inter-religious dialogue issue led to a new conflict between the Sheikh of the Azhar and some of the Azhar scholars, who objected to the participation of Israeli rabbis in the dialogue. A group of the Azhar scholars rejected the participation of extremist rabbis, who do not acknowledge...
Date of source: Monday, April 16, 2001
Pope Shenouda said that neither Judaism nor Christianity approve of cloning. He believes that having a host mother is not allowed because in such a case we would not know who the real mother is. He is also of the opinion that pregnancy from a dead father is unnatural as the relation between a man...
Date of source: Friday, April 13, 2001
Pope Shenouda said that it is true that Arab countries, sometimes, describe themselves as Muslim, forgetting other denominations within them and that the Egyptian land and army are referred to as "Muslim land" and Muslim Army." "True, there are Islamist countries, but even those countries are not...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2001
Al-Qashish village is a living example of the national unity between Muslims and Christians. Muslims there help Christians in restoring a church that was built in the days of Khedive Abbas Helmi. At every feast, the priest of the church distributes gifts and clothes to everyone, Muslims before...
Date of source: Friday, April 13, 2001
A TV discussion between two Copts, Gamal Asad and Mamdouh Nakhla, nearly turned into a dispute on air. The subject of the discussion was the visit of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. Nakhla was of the opinion that the Commission’s visit was one with good intentions while Asad...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 10, 2001
No doubt there are some emigrant Copts who transgressed all limits in their extremism against Egyptian policy. No one can be considered a traitor, except when a court has ruled him as such. And no one can be considered an apostate except when he says this about himself. Accusing emigrant Copts and...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2001
The article is an interview with The Christian Egyptian billionaire, Onsi Sawirus, who was the only Egyptian the American magazine "Fortune" put in its list of the richest people in the world. Among many questions about his business and his company group, Orascom, he was asked his opinion 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.