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Date of source: Monday, July 21, 2003
The author believes that American missionary activities in the Arab-Islamic world are more dangerous than Huntington’s theory concerning the clashes between civilizations. He believes that to avoid problems between the Islamic world and Christianity because of such activities, it is better to adopt...
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 2003
Time magazine published on June 30, 2003 an article titled “Should Christians convert Muslims? A new flock of missionaries has launched a campaign to take the Gospel to Islamic countries. But will they inspire more backlash than belief?” by David Van Biema. Sawt Al-Umma and Al-Usbua believe this...
Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2003
An angry article in Rose el-Youssef on claims about kidnapped Coptic girls.
Report on Christian missionary activities in the Islamic world and on how they mostly only create tensions and conflicts between the two.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 6, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Ali Al-Saman, the deputy-chairman of the Azhar Inter-Religious Dialogue Committee. He comments on the Muslim-Christian dialogue in the light of the US war on Iraq and the hostile relations between Islam and the West. He says that sending Christian missionary...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 18, 2003
General director of the Benevolent Construction Association in Riyadh said that the entire village of Gradwa in Guinea embraced Islam at the hands of a group of missionaries following the association.
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
A Russian newspaper wrote that 5% of the majority Muslim population of the Kyrgyzstan Republic converted to Christianity as a result of the missionary activities carried out by Christian organizations in former Soviet republics. The head of the Kyrgyzstani Committee for Religious Affairs Amrazak...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2004
The author responds to a letter of Mr. Geir Valle of Norwegian Church Aid on Christian missionary work. It would benefit Muslim-Christian relations if both Muslims and Christians could see beyond any doubt that a Christian convert to Islam or a Muslim to Christianity was 100% genuine. That may be...
Date of source: Friday, October 27, 2000
Conversion to Christianity within refugee camps is one of the difficulties that Moslems face. Statistics show that there are approximately 23 million Moslem refugees who have to put up with material and moral pressure. Some have actually converted from Islam, while others face missionary sessions...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 29, 2000
The Truth, an e-mail service of American Copts, probably related to one of the Coptic associations, sent out a text which claims that Coptic Christians are persecuted in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2000
The article claims that year more than one million Muslims in Africa convert annually to Christianity and that thus no effort should be spared to step up Muslim missionary activities.
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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.