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Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2006
General bishop: Bishop Buṭrus of the Coptic Orthodox Church is known for the controversy over the Charity Isle of Patmos. He has been a bishop since 1985, Member of board of advisors and founder of Charity Isle of Patmos [named after the Greek Island where the apostle John received his Revelation...
Date of source: Friday, January 9, 2004
Clashes between an army unit and the Coptic Orthodox Patmos land near Cairo.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 9, 2003
An Egyptian army unit apparently made an effort to remove the wall of Patmos Land, a Coptic Orthodox project on the Cairo-Suez road. The incident renews the bishop´s fears that the wall will be removed after previous attempts to do this in the past years. The origin of the problems is in the wish...
Date of source: Friday, January 13, 2006
Bibliotheca Alexandrina is organizing a conference to discuss Islam and the civil state. Arab intellectuals who have conducted research on the topic will be invited.
Date of source: Thursday, December 1, 2005
This is a translation of an article about the work of the Center for Arab-West Understanding from the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw.
Editor AWR: This article is very sharp. Senior editor Eildert Mulder has used formulations that Hulsman would never have used, but this is related to Mulder’s own...
Date of source: Monday, May 24, 2004
The balance between Egypt’s Coptic minority and its Muslim majority is an ancient and sensitive one. According to Bishop Boutros, who is responsible for the Coptic Orthodox Church’s publications, "spirits are full of hatred. Muslims and Christians are not good to each other - and it’s hard to...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
Kyrillos Dawoud Beshri, a 17-year-old smith was killed and two others were injured after they were run into by a bus owned by a public transportation company. The victims were in a crowd gathering before the Patmos Monastery on the thirty kilometer Suez-Cairo road. Three others were injured while...
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.