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Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
The difficult kind of trading with Copts is the insistence of some clergymen to perform the role of the political representative of Copts. That was clear in an interview with Bishop Wissa in Al-Ahram, Saturday, February 2, in which he insists that he is responsible for his Coptic children, which...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
The author of this article challenges some of the statements made by Reverend Father Makarious Youssef of the Church of St. George in Abu Qurqas in an interview with a foreign news agency.
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
... Your Holiness Pope John Paul II, Pope of Vatican: Egypt is a country in which the crescent mingles with the cross. It has mosques and churches and everybody worships God Almighty. There are no sectarian conflicts at all and [this is] especially [so] in the era of President Mubarak. For the...
Date of source: Saturday, February 5, 2000
Bishop Wissa’s name is central to the understanding of the violence [Fitna] in Al-Kosheh, both in 1998 and in the more recent events. Since the first events of Al-Koshh in 1998, his name has become known outside his bishopric and Egypt’s borders and [his name] was repeated continuously in the Press...
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
The news of the slaughter in Al-Kosheh affected all Egyptians, not only in Upper Egypt but in the whole world. The Canadian and international newspapers published the news of this slaughter, but there were a lot of exaggerations in them. These exaggerations were due to the repetition of the events...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
... The Copts are also suffering from the strict orders of the Orthodox Church. Therefore, many Copts have converted to Catholicism or Evangelicalism because the Orthodox Church refused modernism and would not allow its children to move freely or express their opinions frankly.
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
Several times many reports have been published about persecution of Copts in Egypt. Non-governmental organizations took these reports and published them as if they were facts. These reports expose a question, which needs an answer. What is the reality of these organizations, and what are their...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
The attitude of Al-Gamaat Al-Islamiyya towards the case of Al-Kosheh is a pointer for many things in the Egyptian reality. The most important of these is the agreement of all powers on the political map of Egypt on gathering [Egyptians] together and enhancing the spirit of unity, and that the real...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
There are some six million Muslims living in the USA yet a "must-read" American columnist writes: "... it is sad and sorry at the same time that we rarely hear the voices of Muslim Americans protesting against terrorist actions taking place here and there, or declaring their protest against the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 3, 2000
In interviews from Cairo to the deep southern town of Kosheh, many Egyptians voiced mistrust and scorn for the other religion, while others said Egypt enjoyed religious harmony and that Kosheh was an isolated incident.
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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.