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25. Sheikh Al-Azhar and Pope Shenouda and different [political] trends in favor of holding a meeting
Date of source: Saturday, January 15, 2000
Subtitle: A meeting this morning headed by Dr. Ebeid to discuss the restoration of Al-Kosheh
Dr. Atef Ebeid, Prime Minister [of Egypt] has stressed the necessity of holding an intellectual meeting between the Muslim scholars and Christian priests in Egypt. He said that the meeting will aim to...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2000
Anyone who reads the declarations of emigrant Copts and the declarations of the centers adjoined to them thinks that Egypt is an apartheid society like South Africa in the past. Some might even think that every Muslim in Egypt carries an machine-gun on his shoulder all the time to deal with any...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 11, 2000
The crisis of Al-Koshh revealed the existence of good examples that should be followed.
Several individual persons are mentioned.
Date of source: Monday, January 10, 2000
During the next few days, Al-Koshh will witness a reconciliation conference attended by executive and people’s leaders after the reconciliation committee succeeded in agreeing about the basis of the final reconciliation between the parties of the problem.
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2000
Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Bakr, governor of Sohag has yesterday morning visited the Cathedral of the Coptic Orthodox and the orphans in the organization of the Christian Beit Al-Rahma [House of Mercy], accompanied by Bishop Bakhoum, bishop of Sohag and the political, executive and people’s leaders and...
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 1999
A minority of the emigrant Copts claims that the Coptic endowments in Egypt have been confiscated and no attempts have been made to solve this problem. They pay millions in publishing advertisements in the American newspapers to circulate the idea that Copts in Egypt are suffering some problems,...
Date of source: Thursday, September 6, 2012
Last Friday, Sheikh Abdel Karim Mustafa refused to preach to the people in a mosque in Qena because the Ministry of Religious Endowments refused to give him a reward. He asked those present to change the time of the prayers.
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Monday, August 2, 1999
Good news for the Orthodox Church should also be good news for the nation’s leading Islamic institution. After Pope Shenouda announced at a press conference on 23 June that the government had handed over 780 feddans of Coptic religious-endowment (awqaf) land, Al-Azhar asked the government to...
Date of source: Sunday, July 18, 1999
Sheikh Goheiry’s second house in Fatimid Cairo between Muski and Al Muizz street is being threatened according to his descendants and residents of the area.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Today morning, Pope Shenouda announces that the Coptic Waqf system has regained back all the lands that had been taken from it by force. This problem was solved with the help of the Islamic Waqf Ministry [the ministry entrusted with government supervision of estates in mortmain].
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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.