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Date of source: Tuesday, August 17, 2004
The building of the Hanging Church is sort of an architectural miracle because it is built over a Roman fortress called Babylon. There is an empty space beneath the church and ground water had leaked into it. The church was affected by the 1992 earthquake, which led the ministry of culture to begin...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 2004
The Coptic Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church started the fasting of the Holy Virgin on August 8 which continues until August 22. Most churches are celebrating the 15 days, particularly the churches where the Virgin Mary is said to have passed by. These churches include the Church of Virgin in...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 17, 2004
For thirty-three years, the personal status court has been authorizing divorce for Copts, however divorced Copts are still denied a second marriage by the Coptic Orthodox Church law. Such a backlog of Coptic divorce cases has yielded a sense of psychological and social alienation on the part of...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
Last Saturday, Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabia satellite channels admitted that they were hoaxed by an American computer expert. Benjamin Vanderford, 22, from San Francisco, confessed that he videotaped his staged beheading at a friend’s house using fake blood. In the footage, Vanderford sits on a chair...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
The practice of yellow journalism has nothing to do with reality. These stories focus on prostitution, homosexuality, corruption and superstition. When you read these newspapers you have the feeling that these stories simply do not belong to the reality of our society.
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
People suffering from psychological, ethical and behavioral problems have found themselves a place in the field of press. The bad reputation of some suspicious newspapers have tarnished the credibility of the Egyptian press as a whole.
These second rate newspapers have spread feelings of...
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 2004
Since the early days of Islam, the enmity of Jews toward Islam has been stronger than the enmity of polytheists towards it. Recently, the world Zionism movement has managed to bring Jews and Western Christians into unison for the first time in history. This unity has produced the White House’s new...
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 2004
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom demanded that Egypt should financially compensate Egyptian Jews who immigrated to the US for the loss of their possessions and money. But this very same committee has ignored Egypt’s demands to reopen the investigations concerning the killing and...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 2004
Dr. Rifa’at Sayyed Ahmad, director of the Jaffa Center for Research, has been again accused of anti-Semitism after he published two articles in Al-Liwaa Al-Islami. The two articles were titled “The lie about burning the Jews” As a result of pressure from American and Israeli sources, Muhammad Al-...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
An unprecedented wave of hate crimes is spreading throughout Europe, particularly in France, targeting Arab and Muslim cemeteries. Attackers have destroyed gravestones and defaced them by drawing swastikas and writing message of hatred. Concerned authorities have not found a clear explanation 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.