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Date of source: Friday, December 8, 2000
In the sixth year of the Hijra, the Prophet Mohammed sent messages to neighboring kings and princes inviting them to join Islam. One of those kings was Al-Moqawqas, the head of the Copts in Egypt. Al-Moqawqas’ reply to Mohammed was sending him two slave women of great position among Copts and...
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2000
Religious scholars came to be divided between supporters and opponents to the idea of the nomination of Muslim women in elections and regarding their rights in participating in the political life. The Mufti and sheikh Youssef Al-Badri believe that women’s nature does not allow them to have a role...
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2000
The Greek, Syrian and Latin Catholic churches witnessed three important nominations. The Latin Catholic Church in Egypt is still waiting for a successor of Archbishop Egidio Sampieri who died three months ago.
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
For the 15th week successively, the holy lights and the pure white doves are still appearing on the towers of the church of Saint Marcus in Assiut. The healing miracles are also still taking place. Many people from Egypt and from abroad testified that they saw this spiritual phenomena.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 29, 2000
For the second successive year Muslims and Copts will celebrated the Lesser Bairam and Christmas together. The relationship between Father Samuel Al-Behari and Sheikh Ramadan and that between Tawfiq Andrawis and the Muslim family of Adel Bari are living examples of the love planted in the hearts...
Date of source: Thursday, November 30, 2000
In the last interview of Al-Raya Al-Misria with Bishop Athanasius, he spoke about the difficulty of development. He said that the governorate of Beni Suef is characterized by its organized services.
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2000
A draft of a presidential decree, according to which a new law for the national institutions and associations will be issued, was prepared. It prevents national organizations from working in five fields. Two of which are carrying out an activity that discriminates between citizens because of...
Date of source: Thursday, December 7, 2000
Pope Shenouda explained in his weekly meeting in the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abassiya, Cairo, that he is very sad about the film Awan El Ward which is shown during Ramadan on Egyptian TV. He encouraged individual people to write letters of protest to the Egyptian Minister Safwat el-Sherif,...
Date of source: Monday, December 4, 2000
Egyptian authorities imposed power on a village in Minia governorate after the eruption of fights between Muslims and Copts. The Ministry of Interior issued a statement denying that this incident has any political or sectarian motives. A fight had occurred between some members of a Muslim family...
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
The author criticized Nabil Luka Babawi for his article "Copts and the participation in the political life" which he published in Al-Ahram. Babawi is of opinion that the slogan of "religion for God and the country for all" started to get credibility after being only mentioned in emotional...
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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.