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Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
An opinion survey conducted by the Dutch daily Volkskrant shows that eighteen percent of Muslims living in The Netherlands have never gone to a mosque, 27% of them go to mosques only on Fridays and religious feasts, while 51 % of them go to mosques several times during the month.
Date of source: Saturday, January 3, 2004
Mel Gibson’s film “Passion” triggered debate and renewed the Jewish propaganda campaigns against him. Pope John Paul II approved and admired the film. Israeli newspaper Haaretz criticized the pope for such opinion. The Pope’s confirmation that he approved the movie means ending the relationship...
Date of source: Sunday, January 4, 2004
The article reports a meeting held in Sheikh Ahmad Keftaro Assembly [Religious complex in the Damascus named after Sheikh Ahmad Keftaro]. Sheikh Ahmad Keftaro is the Mufti of Syria. Egyptian Rev. Dr. Andrea Zaki Estaphanous was present in the meeting. He stressed that Arab-Arab dialogue is...
Date of source: Saturday, January 3, 2004
The author comments on the phenomenon of religious stickers on vehicles. The Christian “fish” vs. the Muslim “shark” has spiraled into a clash of symbols. The matter has become more than simply announcing a religious identity. It has become a matter with political and social connotations. This...
Date of source: Monday, January 5, 2004
A description of the history of the conflicts around the development of the convent of Patmos on the Cairo-Suez road. This text was written in May 2003 and presented to the Egyptian press center in the hope to get a response from Egyptian authorities. This response has not come.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
AWR asked His Grace Bishop Botros to respond to the incident which killed one Christian worker.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
Report of a visit to the location of the incident just hours after one Christian worker had been killed at the Patmos convent. The report describes the local situation, angry responses of local Christians and conflicting stories
Date of source: Sunday, January 11, 2004
A call upon the Minister of Defence to issue orders towards halting this deplorable aggravation around Patmos land, “since it is not right that any members of the military should take the law into their own hands if they believe – correctly or incorrectly – that it is being violated. This is a...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
Kyrillos Dawoud Beshri, a 17-year-old smith was killed and two others were injured after they were run into by a bus owned by a public transportation company. The victims were in a crowd gathering before the Patmos Monastery on the thirty kilometer Suez-Cairo road. Three others were injured while...
Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2004
The author believes that Egyptian actor Omar Sharif has become part of the campaign launched by the West and Zionism against Islam and Muslims. Speaking to American magazine Time, Sharif stated that he made a party for his Jewish grandson because he attained puberty, and that he has a Muslim...
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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.