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Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 2004
It is agreed on that the route taken by the Holy Family in Egypt is the utmost Christian tourism of the world. What 1500 million Christians know about it, is limited to what they read in the book of Matthew. Driven by curiosity, tourists from Europe and America will come and that will represent...
Date of source: Monday, December 23, 2002
Between October 10, 1998 and October 2002 80 permits had been given for restauration, 9 for renovation and 3 for completely rebuilding a church (tearing it to the ground and rebuilding it again). Six more permits have been requested and are now being processed.
Date of source: Monday, December 23, 2002
Criticizing the press release of the US Copts Association. Some Copts frequently resort to claims of Islamic extremism if decisions are made they don´t like. This doens´t help.
Date of source: Saturday, December 7, 2002
Press release of the US Copts Association about the decision of the governor of Assiut instructing to remove an illegally built section of the church which the association does not mention and thereby providing only part of the information (see art. 13 and 14) needed to form an accurate picture of...
Date of source: Friday, October 11, 2002
Christians believe that Al-Muharraq monastery is the holiest location to which the Holy Family resorted. The tourism value of Al-Muharraq monastery is not less than that of the pyramids. That is why we should give it the concern it deserves.
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 11, 2006
A digest of articles covering Coptic-Muslim Brotherhood relations, focusing on American Coptic leader Michael Munīr’s recent visit to Egypt, halting attempts to establish dialogue between the two groups and the impact of the Brotherhood’s success in the last parliamentary elections on Muslim-Coptic...
Date of source: Monday, October 10, 2005
The outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group has presented three candidates for the elections in Assiut, including Muhammad Hāmid Sharīf, a physician, in Assiut City constituency, and Muhammad ‘Abd al-Rāziq, also a physician, at the Manfalout constituency.
Date of source: Thursday, September 29, 2005
Jirjis Hilmī ‘Āzir discusses the thorny issue of Egyptian Christians converting to Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2005
Most of the decisions of the past century in Assiut have involved only the demolition, re-construction or restoration of historical Coptic churches, but now a new church is to be built.
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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.