Displaying 981 - 990 of 3715.
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
A Christian woman won one of Al-Wafd’s weekly Iqra’ [read] competitions. She said she read religious pages in newspapers and participated in most competitions.
Date of source: Saturday, April 7, 2001
The head of the Evangelical church stressed that President Mubarak does not refuse any request concerning building or restoring any church. He said that the President agreed on specifying a piece of land in every new city for building a church.
Date of source: Saturday, April 7, 2001
Pope Shenouda III received a piece of land, owned by the state, in Al-Tur city, in the South of Sinai governorate, to build a new church.
Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2001
A presidential decree for building a church for the Orthodox Copts, with a surface area of 900 square meters, in Bulaq Abu Al-Ela, was issued.
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
The visit of the US commission has proved the patriotism of Egyptians by their rejection of it. However, if the present state of affairs persists, this will not be the last time we see the commission, and the question of the government’s patriotism will remain. The writer concluded the article by...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2001
The writer believes that human rights, part of which is religious freedom, cannot be achieved by investigating or writing reports. Human rights does not mean distributing humanitarian aid. She wonders why, if the US Commission on International Religious Freedom is concerned with the conditions of...
Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2001
The USA Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a statement concerning its visit to Egypt. The information available on its Internet site said that the report on the commission’s visit to Egypt was being prepared and that the commission asked President Bush to raise the issue of Coptic...
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
Some may not mind foreign intervention in Egyptian affairs when matters are related to the issue of human rights. This is a very short sighted opinion. Despite our disagreement with the government concerning many things, we differentiate between opposition that is working to better the situation...
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published the text of a letter sent by rabbi David Sebastian to Clinton before one of Mubarak’s visits to the USA. In this letter he asked Clinton to raise the issue of the violation of Coptic religious freedom in Egypt. Mubarak’s last visit to the USA was also...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2001
Despite the fact that emigrant Copts count for a small percentage, they used the media as a weapon and started publishing paid advertisements about their inaccurate claims concerning the persecution of Copts. The pamphlets they distribute only put the Copts of Egypt in critical situations.
Pages
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.