Displaying 921 - 930 of 1878.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
During his visit to Egypt last week, former prime minister of The
Netherlands, Prof. Andreas Van Agt, gave a lecture entitled, "Culture and business: The Netherlands as the
gateway to Europe,” at the Cairo International Lions Club. The lecture addressed the Palestinian-
Israeli
conflict and the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf publishes the full text of the appeal made by Pope Shenouda III against a court ruling obliging him to grant permission to divorced Copts to remarry.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The patriarch of Jerusalem shows his disagreement with the prohibition on Copts from
visiting
Jerusalem but Pope Shenouda maintains his stance.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
Dr. ‘Abd al-Mun‘im Sa‘īd believes that the two-year extension of the 25-year-old emergency law was vital after terrorist attacks rocked Dahab, Rafah, al-‘Arīsh, Tābā, Cairo and Sharm al-Sheikh.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The recent plans of
the Egyptian
Ministry of Awqāf [Endowments] to introduce a single call to prayer has met with huge
opposition
from the public and a number of Muslim scholars, arguing that the unification of the azān
runs
contrary to the Islamic sharī‘a.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The Ministry of
Awqāf’s plan to unify the
Azān [The call to prayer] in Cairo’s mosques has provoked
heated controversy in Muslim circles.
Opponents to the plan say that introducing a single call to prayer, delivered
by a radio network,
contradicts the teachings of Islam. The minister of...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The Egyptian minister of
awqāf [Endowments], Dr.
Muhammad Hamdī Zaqzouq, said the encrypted signal, used to produced a
single call to prayer in Cairo’s
mosques, would be sent from a broadcasting hub in al-Muqattam and would be
scrambled with the signal of the
Qur’ān Radio Station.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006
The author says that chaos, nepotism and favoritism have become a
sad feature of
daily life in the Azhar’s religious institutes sector in Kafr al-Sheikh. The under-secretary
in Kafr
al-Sheikh [Reviewer: No name or ministry mentioned. Most probably of the Ministry of Awqāf
(Endowments)] uses...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The European Union was divided over the US-led war in Iraq, but
united against
Hamās, the former prime minister of The Netherlands, Prof. Andreas Van Agt said
yesterday in a
lecture at the Cairo International Lions Club.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The father of a Christian girl who disappeared from her home with a Muslim boy states that
he will accept her marriage or conversion, if she has chosen of her own free will, but he believes that she
may
have been brainwashed.
Pages
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.