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Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2000
The American Jewish Committee expressed its deep frustration at the statement of the bishops of the American Catholic Church regarding the peace process in the Middle East [see article 18 in this RNSAW]. The reason is that, according to the Jewish Committee, the statement did not ask the...
Date of source: Thursday, September 21, 2000
The UNESCO sponsored International Conference for Dialogue Among Religions concluded its sessions last Tuesday in Tashkent. Representatives of 30 countries and a large number of religious organizations participated in the five-day conference.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 5, 2000
It has been decided that the name of Pope Pius IV be included in the list of saints. Raising him to the level of a saint confirms the miracle he performed before his death.
At the same time, it will lead to problems with the Jews. In 1870, he described them as dogs saying "you can hear many of...
Date of source: Monday, August 21, 2000
The inter-religious dialogue, which was agreed upon during the visit of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Egypt last February, has been postponed, awaiting the reply of the Vatican to a memo from Al Azhar. The memo asked the pope to apologize about the crusader wars, exactly as he did regarding...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 28, 2000
After the dissipation of the echo of the gun bullets that the Turk, Ali Agha fired in St. Peter’s square, attempting to assassinate Pope John Paul II, 19 years ago, the Vatican has finally decided to ask the Italian government to release the Turk Ali Agha and forgive his failed attempt to...
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2000
After viewing the document, the Azhar’s committee for dialogue officially requested the Pontifical council for inter-religious dialogue to make an addition to the agenda of the joint committee of the Azhar and the Vatican. The additional item is "discussion of our request for fair and objective...
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2000 to Friday, April 21, 2000
In one of the biggest appalling massive suicides in the world, more than one thousand persons lost their lives, due to the religious extremism and abuse of their religious thoughts. Rose Al Youssef warned in this feature of the increasing number of merchants of religion day by day, and the...
Date of source: Monday, April 17, 2000
An Italian news paper revealed yesterday that Islamic extremists were planning to assassinate Pope John Paul II after he returned from his last visit to Middle East at the end of March.
Date of source: Friday, April 7, 2000
The Egyptian government and people, Christians and Muslims alike, warmly welcomed Pope John Paul II ’s visit. This universal welcome reflected the tolerance and unity of the Egyptian people. After returning to the Vatican, he announced a historic apology for massacres his forefathers committed...
Date of source: Thursday, March 30, 2000
The Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ikrima Sabry, did not attend the meeting that was held between some of the Jewish rabbis and the Pope of the Vatican... Besides this, Sheikh Ikrima confirmed that meeting the rabbis is not an important thing because they are fanatics and they call for the occupation...
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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.