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Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2001
The writer believes that human rights, part of which is religious freedom, cannot be achieved by investigating or writing reports. Human rights does not mean distributing humanitarian aid. She wonders why, if the US Commission on International Religious Freedom is concerned with the conditions of...
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published the text of a letter sent by rabbi David Sebastian to Clinton before one of Mubarak’s visits to the USA. In this letter he asked Clinton to raise the issue of the violation of Coptic religious freedom in Egypt. Mubarak’s last visit to the USA was also...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom asked President Bush to raise religious-freedom issues with President Mubarak during the latter’s state visit to the United States. The request follows the return of a Commission delegation from a visit to Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2001 to Friday, April 6, 2001
An emigrant Copt claimed that Bishop Yo’annis was detained by some Muslim terrorists during the riots in Al-Khosheh for some hours during which time he was forced to say the Shahada [This is the Muslim declaration of faith: There is no God but God and Mohammed is His prophet]. He did say it and...
Date of source: Sunday, March 4, 2001
An Israeli document, referred to by * in his defense file*** ,calls for establishing a Coptic country in Upper Egypt. It shows the target Israel wants to achieve since the 1980s. That is dividing each country of the Arab world. The author believes that this document explains what is going on in...
Date of source: Thursday, March 29, 2001
Press Information Note 53 The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) met with Pope Shenouda, the head of the Coptic Church, and the Sheikh of the Azhar but otherwise was almost universally boycotted by both Christians and Muslims. The members of the Commission waited...
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2001
The delegation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) completed its visit to Egypt. Three members of the Commission visited Egypt and will report to the rest of the nine-member Commission about the visit. No findings or conclusions can or will be made by the Commission...
Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2001
The Religious Freedom Commission is not a non-governmental organization. It is an official committee financed by the United States Federal Government. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom [USCIRF] was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 27 January 1998,...
Date of source: Saturday, March 24, 2001 to Friday, March 30, 2001
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom met with Bishop Marcos of Shoubra Al-Kheima and asked him about the rulings given in Al-Kosheh killings, underage Christian girls turning to Islam and about the non-inclusion of the Coptic period in the history syllabus. Coptic Catholic Bishop...
Date of source: Friday, March 2, 2001
The Catholic Patriarch of Egypt pointed out that there is a difference between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox one concerning dealing with the issue of Al-Quds [Jerusalem]; the Orthodox Church rejects visits to Jerusalem considering it as a kind of normalization [of relations with Israel]....
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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.