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Date of source: Sunday, May 19, 2002
Pope Shenouda spoke about the importance of accepting the other. He said that Zionist Christianity was confined to some Protestant denominations. He criticized the idea of God’s chosen people and said that the activities of emigrant Copts were reactions to and not actions against what happens in...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Pope Shenouda assured that the Egyptian Church rejects any aggression over religious sites whether they are Islamic or Christian. He added that the international community had been negligent towards the besieging of the Church of the Nativity because it dealt with it as a political and not a...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 23, 2002
The Maglis el-Milli of the Evangelical churches in Egypt headed by Dr. Safwat Al-Bayadi condemned the inhuman Israeli practices against the Palestinians. The Maglis called upon all churches, international and local ecclesiastical bodies, the international community and organizations to support the...
Date of source: Friday, April 26, 2002
It is not possible that God, Who is Just and Perfect and orders His servants to judge justly, takes Palestine from the Palestinians and gives it to the Israelis. The Palestinians have the right claim to it. Israelis are a group of foreign people who killed the prophets and broke God´s covenant...
Date of source: Sunday, April 14, 2002
The author criticizes the attitude of emigrant Copts towards what is happening in Palestine. He expressed the opinion that whenever there is something related to Copts in Egypt, they ask for the intervention of the USA. However, they did nothing when Israel killed their fellow Christians in...
Date of source: Sunday, March 31, 2002
Pope Shenouda said that the claims of Israel to possess the land of Palestine upon the promise of God to them in the Torah have no true bases. Israel was not established by the promise of God but by the British Balfour Promise. He added that no one in the Islamic world accepts Israel´s...
13. A Christian Egyptian researcher demands the return of Al-Sultan monastery to the Egyptian Church
Date of source: Friday, March 8, 2002
A professor of the Coptic Studies Institute in Egypt demanded the return of Al-Sultan monastery in Jerusalem to the Egyptian sovereignty. Al-Sultan monastery is considered one of the properties of the Egyptian church in Jerusalem. It was seized by the Jews and a group of Ethiopian Christians is now...
Date of source: Sunday, March 10, 2002
Pope Shenouda expressed his hope that the Arabic Summit, due to be held in Beirut, may bring about positive results that can serve the Arabic issues and help the Palestinians in their battle against Israel. He described the Palestinian martyrdom operations as a legal right.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2002
The article cites parts of Pope Shenouda´s book “Christianity, Israel and the Issue of Jerusalem.” In this book, the pope refutes the fact that the Jews are God´s chosen people. He wrote that according to Christianity, God´s chosen people are all the people who truly believe in God
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2002
Pope Shenouda gave a lecture in the 34th Cairo International Book Fair about the human mind and the restrictions that prevent it from right thinking. After the lecture, the pope was asked many questions about his relationship with the Sheikh of the Azhar, the Palestinian issue, the role emigrant...
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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.