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Date of source: Thursday, July 19, 2001
The author believes that emigrant Copts want to cause a religious riot between the church and the government and to shake the stability of the nation, for the benefit of the Jewish lobby. He stressed that there is no religious persecution in Egypt and that the claims pertaining to Copts facing...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
A notification was introduced to the Prosecutor General against the Editor-in-Chief of Sout-Al-Umma because the paper published an article claiming that 70,000 Copt forged rape reports about their wives to get American nationality. The article aroused the anger of Copts and Pope Shenouda said he...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Coptic sources in California discovered that about seventy thousand young Coptic Egyptian men claimed that they were persecuted and submitted false reports stamped with fake stamps about their wives being raped to get access to work and obtain American citizenship.
Date of source: Sunday, July 15, 2001
Salah Sileem expressed the opinion that the political aim of the powerful countries was to weaken Egypt as a political entity and that imperialistic organizations had penetrated civil society through the Masonic groups and organizations that are pro normalization [of relations with Israel]. Gamal...
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2001
Coptic writer Sadeq Aziz expressed the opinion that the Islamic Shari’a does not contradict Christianity and that most of what it contains agrees with Moses’ law. He added that Christianity does not have any positive laws and that the teachings of Jesus Christ cannot be applied as laws governing a...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Archpriest Salib Matta Saweris said that the expelled monk committed sins and should be punished according to Egyptian criminal law as any Egyptian citizen. He denied that his crime took place in the monastery or that some emigrant Copts were behind what was published in Al-Nabaa. He believed that...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 30, 2001
The author believes that Jews give wrong information [about the religious situation in Egypt] and incite the international opinion in this way. They also use Coptic immigrants for the defense of something that does not exist. She asks Coptic immigrants to be aware of their deception.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Dr. John Watson, a consultant to the Archbishop of Canterbury on Coptic affairs, said that there are very few people, in the West, who know a lot about Islam. People in the West usually say that al-Islambuli murdered Sadat and that sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman is Islam. Dr. Watson said he taught...
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2001
On his tour of the USA, Pope Shenouda declared that emigrant Copts are Egyptians and their love of and fidelity to Egypt was something beyond question. He said that keeping the reputation of Egypt and its dignity was the responsibility of all its children.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 9, 2001
Egypt’s General Consul in the USA gave a reception in the Egyptian Consulate to welcome Pope Shenouda. The Pope pointed out the warm welcome that President Mubarak’s visit to the USA was met with, on the part of emigrant Copts. He stressed that the Copts of Egypt are all right and that they are...
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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.