Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2005
The recent call for political reform put an end to sectarianism in Egypt as all Egyptians, Muslims and Christians, united for one national request. A few months ago, media were covering sectarian problems and were even instigating both Muslims and the government against the Christians.
Date of source: Saturday, May 28, 2005
Dr. ‘Abd Allāh al-Turkī, the secretary general of the World Muslim League (WML), called on Pope Benedict XVI of the Roman Catholic Church, to resume the dialogue with Islam and Muslims and discuss all problems of Muslims in Italy with Italian Minister of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu.
Date of source: Saturday, May 21, 2005
Journalists must be aware of sectarian sensitivities. By not being aware of them, journalists contribute to the bias and distortion of facts.
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2002
Egyptian Cultural TV broadcasted on October 27 a live discussion with Patrick Haenni, social researcher at the CEDEJ in Cairo and Cornelis Hulsman on inter-religious dialogue in a program of Heba Fahmy, “We and the Other.” Much of Egyptian and Western news reporting about the Arab World is not...
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2002
Rev. Dr. Wolfram Reiss joined the advisory board of the RNSAW. He is a German Scholar with broad knowledge of inter-religious studies, focusing in the relations between the three religions, which have their cradle in the Middle East: Judaism, Oriental-Orthodox Christianity and Islam. He studied...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 12, 2002
The article discusses three points: the biases and assumptions of the Western media and its thinking about the Arab world, the limits on political and press freedom in Egypt and the style of journalism this produces in Egypt and what the press can do to improve the image of Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, June 2, 2002
In 1977, the Bishop of Minya purchased a piece of land in the village of Beni Mahdi in order to build a church to serve the village congregation and those of eight neighbouring villages and hamlets which lacked a local church. The church has been waiting for approval for about a quarter of a...
Date of source: Friday, April 12, 2002
Bishop Kenneth Cragg spoke on April 10 in the Faculty of Languages and Translation at the Azhar University.The Bishop said both Islam and Christianity acknowledge the greatness of God.
Students asked the bishop about his opinion about the Palestinians. Some of them asked in a polemical fashion...
Date of source: Sunday, December 1, 2002
Muslim intellectual Sayyed Al-Qimni believes that considering Islam as the official religion of the State implies the existence of other informal religions, a situation which signifies the exclusion from all citizenship rights of holders of other religions. Whenever a sectarian problem arises,...
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2002
The year report of 2001 including an overview of the special reports written for the RNSAW. The year 2001 was marked by a strong increase in the number of special reports, providing readers with information that is not available elsewhere.