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Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2001
Algeria’s celebration of the anniversary of St. Augustin was an unusual event as it took place in a political climate where a bloody conflict between the state and Islamic groups is still at its peak. European Christian circles welcomed this initiative by the Algerian government, considering it an...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
Bishop Stephanous II, the Catholic Patriarch of Egypt, said that the bigotry of Pope Shenouda is the reason behind stumbling the process of the drawing closer of the Christian denominations. He added that the Orthodox emigrant Copts are the ones behind the stirring up of the issue of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
The Vatican’s Pope intends to pray in the great Umayad mosque in Syria. Still, setting up this papal prayer in this great mosque is not likely to appeal to the Islamic world, it might as well be pictured as an intrusion and an indecent act.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 6, 2001
The Vatican and the Franciscans are in conflict about the ethnic cleansing which led first to the elimination of the Islamic existence in Bosnia and later the orthodox. The Vatican believes that the evangelical role the Franciscans played in the Catholic areas in Bosnia has come to an end. So the...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
The vice-president of the committee for dialogue between religions in the Azhar, Dr. Ali Al-Samman, explained why the Vatican did not apologize for the crusades. It is because European history syllabuses give western people the idea that Salah Al-Deen was the leader of an Islamic aggression during...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Pope John Paul II encourages the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land and the leaders of the Christian communities, to renew their efforts to ensure that relationships between all are inspired by mutual respect, in humility and trust. He also appeals to Jewish and...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 26, 2000
The Vatican issued a charter that belittles the non-Roman Catholic Christian denominations [Orthodoxy and Protestantism] and other religions, especially Islam. This matter aroused dissatisfaction amongst Protestants and Muslims. Moreover, the statement of the cardinal, who is the strongest...
Date of source: Saturday, September 30, 2000
The beatification mass for Pope John XXIII and Pope Pius IX, led by Pope John Paul II, aroused much debate in Italian circles, among Jews and also in Israel resulting in two
demonstrations. One was organized by representatives of aristocratic families in Rome. The other one was organized in memory...
Date of source: Monday, August 21, 2000
The inter-religious dialogue, which was agreed upon during the visit of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Egypt last February, has been postponed, awaiting the reply of the Vatican to a memo from Al Azhar. The memo asked the pope to apologize about the crusader wars, exactly as he did regarding...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 28, 2000
After the dissipation of the echo of the gun bullets that the Turk, Ali Agha fired in St. Peter’s square, attempting to assassinate Pope John Paul II, 19 years ago, the Vatican has finally decided to ask the Italian government to release the Turk Ali Agha and forgive his failed attempt to...
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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.