Date of source: Tuesday, November 9, 2004
The fatal point of weakness in the 1st Coptic symposium in the Swiss city of Zurich was that it tried to be secular but could not abide until the end by this noble call that enhances Egyptians’ unity and consequently functions as a life buoy from a merciful fate at the end of a dark tunnel.
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
Arab Christians are trapped between the hammer of terrorists groups and extremists, and the anvil of fanatic governments that skillfully manipulate the issue of religious radicalism for their own benefit [Editor: what governments does Magdi Khalil refer to?], while reinforcing religious, ethnic and...
Date of source: Friday, September 17, 2004
Shura in the Islamic political thought is the philosophy of political systems, community life and the family. Shura means managing the community life of humans, whether in the general or the personal sense.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi’s call for establishing Islamic and Christian parties has resulted in more disputes and splits within various political streams. The majority of political powers rejected Al-Qaradawi’s call deeming it an obvious demand to create a legitimate political party for the Muslim...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
Some of those who met the US Commission on International Religious Freedom in Egypt, spoke of the necessity of establishing a Coptic Christian political party.
We will find that once the [Orthodox] Copts have their party, the Catholics will have theirs, and the Sunnis, the Shiites and the Muslim...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
The Lebanese Shiite religious authority Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadl Allah, released a statement that dealt with the child-hostage taking in Russia, and with events in Iraq. The statement said: “We reject – strongly – the hostage-taking of children in their school in southern Russia. We also reject...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2004
An animated session of Watani Forum hosted a round-table discussion on Christians of the Arab World. Participating were a number of Egyptian intellectuals and religious figures, as well as Lebanese Jesuit Brother Danny Younis.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2005
The movie “ Kingdom of Heaven” is receiving critique and applauds for one scene between Muslims and Christians by presenting the core of the value system of Muslims as pertaining to “submission” and the Christians to “decision.”
Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2005
Adel Guindy responded to Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s article “Islam Can Vote, If We Let It” [art. 5] saying that the article provides a good insight about what Dr. Ibrahim has been repeatedly telling high-level politicians in Washington D.C. and academics and media in the world’s main capitals for...
Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 2003
The article is based on two interviews with Dr. Tareq Mitri, a Lebanese professor and the head of the Islamic-Christian dialogue section at the World Council of Churches [and member of the Board of Advisors of AWR] and Coptic researcher Samir Marcos, counselor of inter-civilizational dialogue...