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Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
An Wan Mat [An Wan Min
Wan Mat], a Malaysian university professor, donated over $30,000 to an extremist group to finance a terror attack in
Indonesia.
What is the extent of the influence of terrorism if it now involves university professors that finance
destructive operations targeting a...
Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2005
Nearly 40,000 Iraqi Christian refugees in Jordan and Syria are unlikely to return home any time soon, despite the recent national elections. Lack of safety is their biggest concern.
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
The Jordanian men of antiquities declared that they had discovered a cave dug into rocks, which they believe to be the place where John the Baptist was living two thousands years ago. They also found a human skull, which some of them think is all that remains of the body of John the Baptist.
Date of source: Sunday, January 21, 2001
The Arab Orthodox Christian denomination in Jordan warned against granting 62 Greek monks the Jordanian nationality. The Greek Patriarch has applied a request to the Jordanian government to grant 62 Greek monks the Jordanian nationality to win their votes in the coming elections to choose a...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 19, 2000
The author comments on Miss Maria Khoury’s article " Christmas in the Village," in which she mentioned that Taybeh "is the only all-Christian village that is currently in existence not just in the Holy Land but in the entire Middle East Region." He points out that Smakieh is another all Christian...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Many girls declared their wish to work as marriage officials and explained that such a job is not Haram [religiously forbidden]. Scholars in Jordan explain that men are doing the job and there is no need for women in the field. Other scholars do not mind to have women working as marriage officials...
Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2000
In Jordan, archaeologists have discovered a place, in the region of green hills and springs, which is said to be really the place where John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ. It is worth mentioning that before this discovery it was said that Christ was baptized on the West Bank of the river...
Date of source: Friday, March 10, 2000
The Jordanians succeeded in persuading the Pope to visit the new baptism site [where Jesus was supposedly baptized] in Bethany in Jordan on March 21. The Jordanians claim that John the Baptist had been baptizing the believers in this place. In addition to that the Jordanian Minister of Tourism...
Date of source: Thursday, February 24, 2000
... In an international atmosphere that is tense because of the work of some international powers to trample over the concept of sovereignty of some states on their lands, and their work to admit the principle of interference to protect religious minorities from persecution, these religious...
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
Can the Indonesian president save his country from communal strife [between Muslims and Christians] that is destroying his country with all its citizens?! This question needs an urgent answer.
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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.