Date of source: Wednesday, June 28, 2006
The
recent decision of the People’s Assembly to ban ‘The Da Vinci Code’ has provoked
considerable
controversy amongst Egyptian intellectuals, dividing opinions between those who defended the
movie on grounds of
freedom of expression and those who condemned it as blasphemous and misleading.
Date of source: Saturday, June 10, 2006 to Friday, June 16, 2006
Archpriest Marqus ‘Azīz Khalīl refutes allegations by
Dan Brown, the
author of the novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’, that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and had
children with her,
asserting that Christianity stands on the important pillar of the Divine Being of Christ
and thus it is never...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Sermons from pastors at the Maadi Community Church on ’The Da Vinci Code’ and its attack on Christianity.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Kevin Sullivan, the author, reports on the lawsuit in which authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh accuse Dan Brown of stealing the idea for his best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code" from a non-fiction book they published in 1982, "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.”