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Date of source: Wednesday, October 2, 2002
A group of Germans belonging to the YMCA [Young Men´s Christian Association] and Evangelical Church of Saxony, Germany [Evangelische Kirche Deutschland] discovered a very different Christian Egypt from what they had expected from press reports in their home country. The group had followed the trail...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2002
Father Luka from al-Qusseir, Qussia, passed away on January 29 after a heart attack. He was almost 70. Father Luka was the last priest in a dynasty of priests who have served the area since the 1830s. Father Luka had doubts about the Holy Family visiting Durunka but was convinced they embarked in a...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 26, 2005
A discussion of the concepts of sin and shame in Martin Lomen’s study "Sünde und Schande im biblischen und islamischen Kontext: Ein ethno-hermeneutischer Beitrag zum christlich-muslimischen Dialog” [Sin and shame in the biblical and Islamic context: An ethnic-hermeneutic contribution to Christian-...
Date of source: Saturday, October 22, 2005
Since Egyptian society is formed by both Muslims and Christians, the customs and traditions of the two communities have intermixed. Some Muslims celebrate Coptic occasions and some Copts fast Ramadān.
Date of source: Monday, January 10, 2005
Differences of thought within the al-Banna family; from Muslim Brotherhood to European Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 23, 2002
A totally distorted report about the church in Egypt in a US publication called ’the Layman.' The editorial also reports about a visit to Assiut with a group of journalists and members of expatriate churches, a meeting with Bishop Thomas of al-Qussia and Governor Ahmed Hamam Atiya of Assiut. These...
Date of source: Saturday, May 4, 2002
Christian reporter Nagy George, critical of US Coptic activists, passed away.
Report on a visit to the monasteries of al-Muharraq, al-Qussia and Assiut.
Description of the conversations on difficulties around expanding the Monastery and Muslim-Christian relations in the area with Bishop Thomas of...
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 2004
Sham en-Nesim is the day on which Copts go out to the gardens and eat their favorite food of eggs, onions and salted fish. They carry flowers in their hands. They believe until now that whoever sleeps past sunrise on that day will be lazy all year long. On Sham en-Nesim day, Egyptians usually...
Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2004
Egyptian media and political leaders paying attention to Coptic Christmas.
Watani’s Editor-in-chief Yusuf Sidhom’s discusses the term ’ persecution’ in describing the position of Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, February 21, 2004
Growing interest in AWR work.
Announcement of a visit to the Egyptian Delta organized by AWR
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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.