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Date of source: Friday, July 18, 1997
El-Wafd publishes a statement of an Islamic missionary committee who converted 10,000 Asian workers, among them many Catholic Filipinos, to Islam in the past 9 years.
Date of source: Friday, July 18, 1997
Subtitle:Will I convert from Islam? A serious confession - our Islam is about to collapseEl- Muslimun of July 18 laments that Muslims exert much effort to get Christians to say the Islamic creed, but once they are Muslim, very little is done to help the new converts. Several examples of converts’...
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2007
A 20 year old woman who converted to Islam sent a letter to President Husnī Mubārak in which she asks him to protect her from her family.
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2006
The author analyses the case of Heidi Hakīm Manqarius Salīb, a Christian girl who converted to Islam. This case was reported in Al-Katība al-Tībīya (The Theban Legion) and on the websites of several Christian organizations as a kidnapping, but in fact there is no proof of any physical force or...
Date of source: Saturday, December 31, 2005
CSI’s focus on defending the religious freedom of persecuted Christians seems to lead them to very quickly interpret any incident, or rumor of an incident, as persecution. As a response, the author suggests that, rather than sending protest letters to the respective governments, international...
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2005
An encyclopedia entitled “Encyclopedia of Egypt’s Copts” claims that over 50 Christian girls have been kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2005
The American Coptic Union has sent a letter to al-Maydān, commenting on a recent episode of the Dream TV program al-Mustaqbal [The Future] which tackled the subject of the alleged ‘abduction’ of Christian girls in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2005
Four alleged ‘kidnappings’ of Christian girls were reported Friday to the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights.
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2005
Al-Maydān has managed to get a copy of the CD on which newly-converted Maryān and Christine Nādīr speak out about their conversion to Islam and deny being abducted by Islamic groups or forced to convert to Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, August 9, 2003
Dr. Selim Naguib and Pastor McNeely have been writing inflammatory letters falsely claiming that Muslims do kidnap Christian girls in Egypt. There is no reason to doubt their sincerity but they have followed their sentiments without checking facts. The consequences of such false claims are severe...
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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.