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Date of source: Friday, June 22, 2001
A tabloid recently published an article about a monastery, which went against all ethics, and religious, social, and professional values. The author says that the reporter did not verify his facts and led people to believe the man was still a monk. He feels the monastery should have announced that...
Date of source: Saturday, June 23, 2001
Christians came flooding to the cathedral following the publication of an article in Al-Nabaa newspaper. They were searching for a personal answer concerning the church’s response to what was written. The article was about an ousted monk and his sexual adventures in the monastery. The heated...
Date of source: Friday, May 25, 2001
Both Christians and Muslims ought to be proud of the Coptic history of Egypt and of the unique role of the Coptic Church on both national and spiritual levels. The reason for such pride is that it represents a link in the chain of Egyptian history. The author expressed the opinion that nations do...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2001
Father Basilius says Sout al-Umma has made claims about the monastery which are not true.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2001
The article in Sout al-Umma dated May 9 is based on the response of the Monastery of Makarios to the RNSAW, 2001, week 08A, art. 26. The article states the Monastery sent the response to the RNSAW in English. This is not true. The Monastery responded in Arabic, the RNSAW translated this into...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 9, 2001
The monastery of Saint Macarius, from which Fa’iq Zaka Bolous, the former monk, escaped, responded to his confessions, which were published in Sout Al-Umma. In their reply, they accused him of narcissism, autism and avoidance. They explained the monk’s confessions as a conspiracy to defame the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Fa’iq Zakka Bolous found himself in a dilemma, after eleven years as a monk everybody is really angry with him. The monastery summoned him after he published his diary and asked him to stop and not to turn it into a book, but he refused. Lots of letters came in cursing, insulting and denouncing him...
Date of source: Sunday, March 4, 2001
The General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities inaugurated the wall paintings restoration project, in Anba Antonius Church [in the Monastery of Antonius], in the Red Sea governorate. He said that the restoration of the 13th century-paintings had been done by an Italian group, under the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2001
The author of the articles on the story of the former monk said his articles were based on original interviews with the former monk and a book by him called "Confessions of an Egyptian monk." He added that the aim of publishing such a story was to find the truth, as the paper embraces neither the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 25, 2001
The Editorial Board of the RNSAW explained the monastery the role of the RNSAW, which is to translate ALL articles related to the role of religion in society in order to give Western readers an insight into how the Egyptian media report on Christian [and other religious] issues. Translation in no...
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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.