Date of source: Saturday, February 28, 2004
Bishop Mounir Hanna Anis, president
of the Anglican Church in Egypt and North Africa, criticized the Jewish campaign against the film
“The Passion of Christ.” He said that such a campaign is based on weak and made-up excuses, He
hoped that Egyptian movie theaters would show the film.
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
After months of turning the other
cheek, Vatican officials are lashing out against "The Da Vinci Code," saying Christians should not buy or even read the best
-selling thriller. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said that Dan Brown’s novel was a paragon of "anti-Catholic prejudice," and was
filled with "...
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2005
The Head of the Pontifical Council for the Dialogue of Religions, Cardinal Fitzgerald, supported the initiative of the Azhar’s Permanent Committee for the Dialogue of Religions at the Davos International Forum. The initiative stated that there is no connection between terrorism and Islam. It also...
Date of source: Saturday, January 3, 2004
Mel Gibson’s film “Passion” triggered debate and renewed the Jewish propaganda campaigns against him. Pope John Paul II approved and admired the film. Israeli newspaper Haaretz criticized the pope for such opinion. The Pope’s confirmation that he approved the movie means ending the relationship...
Date of source: Sunday, December 30, 2001
Sheikh Fawzy Al-Zifzaf said that inter-religious dialogue does not mean obliging the follower of another religion to accept a certain religious belief or to make him agree with a new religion that combines the teachings of all religions. He added that there is no dialogue with the Jews as Jewish...
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2001
The Catholic Copts of Egypt followed the Vatican pope’s call and fasted with Muslims the whole day of yesterday according to the Islamic Shari’a.
Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2001
Christian Catholics all over the world will fast with Muslim as a response to the call of the Vatican pope. This call comes as an affirmation of religious empathy with Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 13, 2001
The author speaks about the absent role of the Islamic religious institution and gives his perception of the role it should play. He believes that the Islamic religious institution is not able to spread an awareness of Islam in the West, which believes Islam to be the new enemy of western...
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2001 to Friday, August 24, 2001
The Vatican announced that the former patriarch of the Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, who was expelled from the church for breaking an oath not to marry, is planning to return to the church.
Date of source: Thursday, August 9, 2001
The Vatican disfigured a campaign launched against it by some Jewish groups, when researchers decided to stop reviewing the Vatican’s role in World War II. The Vatican strongly defended the role of Pope Pious XXII during the war declaring that he did his best to help the Jews during the Nazis time.