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Date of source: Monday, August 30, 1999
The articles in Rose el-Yousef of July 10-16 are not the first ones attacking Christian missionary efforts in Egypt. Whenever Muslims discover attempts to convert Muslims to Christ they react in anger which poisons the climate between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. An overview of articles which...
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
Hulsman asked three Evangelical pastors in Egypt to comment on the two Rose el-Yousef articles. These pastors are certainly not happy with the publications in Rose el-Yousef. Their criticism, however, focuses on the tensions between churches in Egypt and para-Christian organizations, the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
The RNSAW gave a summary of both Rose el-Yousef articles in RNSAW, week 28, edition July 9-15, 1999. Since several readers asked for the full text that text is given in this issue together with comments from Evangelical Egyptian church leaders.
Wa’el Lotfi writes about the opposition of Egypt’s...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 17, 1999
An article in Al-Arabi newspaper under the title "Islam is innocent in relation to the punishment for apostasy" claimed that the Prophet did not kill the apostates and that the punishment for apostasy was invented by the jurists. I can present to you many verses which prove that the apostates were...
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Saturday, August 21, 1999
In response to a spate of articles in the British media alleging that censorship has banned more than 90 books in Egypt, Minister of Information Safwat El-Sherif has dismissed such reports as "sheer fabrication with no basis of truth." British media charged that this included the book " The Prophet...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 11, 1999
An American official stated a report is in preparation about the state of the religious freedoms all over the world.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 7, 2012
When hardline Sheikh Abdel Sabur Sahin was fighting a fierce battle to declare professor Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid a renegade and separate him from his wife, judge Gabr Ibrahim Gabr of Cairo Court was fighting a similar battle by banning Youssef Chahine’s controversial film "The Immigrant". Shahin and...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Pro-reform Iranian newspaper editors on July 26 condemned the guilty verdict of a clerical court against the editor-in-chief of the leading daily Salam for publishing a "secret" letter from hardline Revolutionary Guards commanders demanding that moderate President Mohammad Khatami crack down...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Infringement on personal freedom or sound educational policy? The ban on wearing the niqab, or full face-veil, in schools has stirred intense controversy and a lengthy legal battle ever since it was issued by Minister of Education Hussein Kamel Bahaaeddin in 1994. The legal wrangle came to an end...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
The High Administrative Court has decided to ban students from entering schools while wearing a niqab (full-face veil).
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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.