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Date of source: Sunday, September 25, 2005
A tribute to Prof. Meinardus, eminent Coptologist, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Sadly Prof. Meinardus died a few days before his birthday.
Date of source: Friday, June 3, 2005
The talk about developing the religious discourse did not end. It is exposed to contemporary ideas and affairs instead of being locked up in histories that are no longer applicable.
Date of source: Saturday, April 24, 2004
The Rotary Club of Heliopolis [Northern Cairo] hosted Pope Shenouda III who spoke about seriousness and its importance.An open discussion followed and the participants directed many questions to the Pope on various issues including the Israeli policies, the film “the Passion of the Christ and...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
Expatriate Copts usually fell among one of two groups: a majority who left Egypt in quest of a better life abroad, and a minority who left to escape bitter instances—usually with the authorities—at home. A ‘silent majority’ and a ‘loud-voiced minority’ then emerged and came to characterize the...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
A report released on the health condition of President Mubarak by Hani Al-Seba’i, the head of Al-Maqrizi Center for Historical Studies, also revealed the names of the organizations that are against the regime. These organizations disseminate their ideas from abroad freely. Those organizations are...
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
There has been an uproar in
Spain due to a religious book written by the mosque Imam Sheikh Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, titled
"Women in Islam." Women’s rights groups denounced the book. They think that the book urges
violence against women.
The problem about the book is the part in which Sheikh...
Date of source: Sunday, March 6, 2005
Earlier this month, writer and intellectual Tareq al-Bishri wrote in the Cairo weekly al – Osbou [al-Usbouc] that about a billion dollars find their way into the Coptic Church’s coffers every year. No one, he wrote, even remotely knows how these funds are spent, since the Church behaves as a...
Date of source: Sunday, February 6, 2005
For Arab Christians, this Christmas my have been a time for introspection, but for Arab Muslims it was time for some serious thinking. The last holiday season more than any other in recent memory witnessed events of inclusions and exclusion, both sad and dramatic, symbolically.
Date of source: Friday, December 28, 2001
Pope Shenouda held a video conference with emigrant Copts in Australia. The Pope asked them to be related to the culture of their motherland [Egypt] and not to depart from eastern traditions He also explained them the good relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, December 29, 2001 to Tuesday, January 1, 2002
The article gives the opinion of Nabil Luka Bebawy concerning the problems facing Copts in Egypt and how to solve them. Bebawy believes that among the problems facing Copts in Egypt are the Hamayouni Law for building churches, the appointment of Copts in senior positions, the fact that the Egyptian...
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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.