Date of source: Friday, September 29, 2006
The pope’s recent declarations have embarrassed Arab Catholics living in the Islamic world. Western countries have different stands on Islam, particularly in Europe, according to the historical and ethnic experiences of each country.
Date of source: Friday, September 22, 2006
The review considers a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the
ambassadors of Muslim
and Arab nations to the Holy See, in which the pontiff affirmed his respect for all
religions, particularly
Islam, and called for continuing the Muslim-Christian dialogue. He described this as of
vital...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 22, 1997
On
August 2, 1997 the L.A Times published an alleged claim of Christians being tortured in Pakistan,
but at the
same time, nothing was mentioned about the confirmed massacres perpetrated daily by Israel,
protected by the right
of veto. On August 14, 1997, the same newspaper published an...
Date of source: Saturday, October 7, 2006
Arab-West Report Editor in-Chief, Cornelis Hulsman, asked Archbishop Fitzgerald, the Catholic nuntius in Egypt, about the statements of Pope Benedict on Islām. Archbishop Fitzgerald speaks Arabic, knows the Islamic world well and plays Qur’ān important role in Muslim-Christian dialogue. The...
Date of source: Friday, June 30, 2006
The author asserts that women, who are hiding their faces or hair, are actually hiding their natural identity, which was given to them by God.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
The author reports a
summarized version of the suggestions that were
the focus of the fifth meeting of the Egyptian-German
dialogue that was held lately in Hanover, Germany. The
meeting lasted for five days and was attended by many
researchers, university professors, some Muslim and Christian...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Dan Brown’s widely popular novel The Da
Vinci Code has caused a storm of controversy in
the Christian world, due to allegations about Jesus and the
Christian faith. The Christian Council of Korea has
described the novel as an attempt to distort the facts,
defame Jesus Christ’s sanctity and...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 5, 2006
The speaker of the Italian Senate,
Marcello Pera has launched a train called “The West Express” with the aim of warning Christian Europe against what
he describes as the Islamic threat.
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
In this article Bishop Yohanna Qulta gives an overview of the history of the Crusader wars. He expressed the opinion that in order to study the history of the Crusades, we have to remove Islam and Christianity as motives for them because, they were not directed at Islam although they were fought...
Date of source: Thursday, October 11, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that when the Italian Prime Minister said that the Western Civilization was superior to the Islamic one, he did not understand the difference between civilization and religion and that was why he compared between the Western civilization and the Islamic religion....