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Date of source: Monday, May 2, 2005
Some 260 Christians left Cairo on April 22, 2005 carried by El Al and EgyptAir’s Air Sinai flights for Israel. Air Sinai has flown the Orthodox Copts while the Israeli carrier El Al flew 37 Catholic Copts.
Date of source: Friday, March 5, 2004
Islam and Christianity do not have the same problems as Judaism in its dealings with non-Jews. Both religions are tolerant toward the “other.” The problem of Judaism emerges because Judaism adopts a race-based affiliation. Because Judaism is a religion that stresses the importance of the Jewish...
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 2004
A heated dialogue between Arab intellectuals was convened in Cairo by the Arab Team for Islamic-Christian Dialogue. The dialogue revolved around the state of religion [in Egypt], democracy and reform. The significance of this dialogue lies in the way it linked issues and concepts such as...
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 2004
In the first meeting between Islam and Christianity, when Prophet Muhammad received a
delegation of Nagran Christians in al-Madīna al-Munawara in the 10th Hijrī year,
Islam’s respect for Christians’ sanctuaries was clear especially in how to deal with members of
other faiths.
- See art. 5:...
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2001
The statements given and the attitudes adopted by senior American officials and European leaders after Bush’s crusade statement indicated that there were attempts to give the attacks against Afghanistan the dimension of a crusade-in the religious sense- against Islamic terrorism-something in the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 8, 2001
The head of the Central Council of the Orthodox Denomination in Jordan and Palestine criticized Pope John Paul II for not apologizing to the Arab Orthodox Christians and Muslims for the crimes committed against them at the hands of the Catholics, at the time of the Crusades. The official spokesman...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Rafique Iscander, the head of the American Coptic Union, sent a letter to President Bush. In this letter he made the events in southern Sudan, the crimes of the civil war in Lebanon and the individual incidents that took place in Egypt appear similar. He wrote that in return for the aid Egypt...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
A document about the status of Christians, Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem as formulated by H.B. Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the Latin Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem. The view of Patriarch Sabbah is shared by many other Christian communities in Jerusalem.
Date of source: Thursday, January 25, 2001
A tree Egyptian Christians believe bowed before Christ has been cut down in a tussle over land. Farmers, fearing the government was planning to encroach on their land to build a protective wall, cut down the Worshipping Tree earlier this month. Police and antiquities department officials in Cairo...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2001
The British government is facing demands for investigation of whether Muslim students in Britain are being militarily trained and armed to fight outside Britain, especially in Chechnya and Kashmir. This demand has led to fears among British Muslims, especially those who belong to the...
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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.