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Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2001
Revd. Dr. John Watson commented on the report of Dr. Rodolph Yanney on conversions of Christians to Islam [RNSAW, 2001, week 01, art. 4]. He believes that it is better for internal investigation of this topic to be conducted by the Copts in Egypt, but not by the hierarchy. The issue needs to focus...
Date of source: Sunday, January 14, 2001
The authors refer to an article, published in Al-Ahram, that recounted the incidents of Al-Kosheh and concluded that the sentence of the court to release all the accused was to make Al-Kosheh enjoy the happiness of both Christmas and the Lesser Bairam. They believe that the story is completely...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
Dr. Rodolph Yanney, president of the Society of Coptic Church Studies and founder and editor of Coptic Church Review in 1980, gave the RNSAW permission to bring his articles in the Copts Digest and the Coptic Daily Digest, published in 1999, together in one report describing the factors leading to...
Date of source: Thursday, January 11, 2001
Introducing AWR press reviews. Growing media attention for RNSAW work.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 26, 2000
The Head of the Pontifical Council for Inter Religious Dialogue sent a message to Muslims on the occasion of the Lesser Bairam. He wrote that the month of Ramadan is a time for Christians and Muslims to remember their spiritual bonds. He pointed out that the UN declared the year 2001 an...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2000
Father Matta Al-Maskeen asked the Ministers of Agriculture and Culture to intervene in executing a demolition decree on a farm exporting ducks’ livers. The farm is established on land nearby the monastery of Makarios in Wadi Al- Natrun with its many Coptic antiquities.
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2000
Naguib Mahfouz was dispossessed of a scholarship to France after his graduation because the head of the scholarships department thought that Mahfouz was a Copt. The author believes that this incident is strong evidence of the importance of Copts and the role they played in the modern history of...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2000
The author pointed out that he had crossed out many of the comments he received on "Awan Al-Ward" because he was keen to limit the arguments around the serial in the frame of its being a dramatic work that has nothing to do with preaching religion. Also, he was surprised by an article in Al-Ahram...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2000
The author says there is no disagreement between him and the Pope and that writing about Pope Kyrillos does not offend him. The Pope does not visit the cities and villages of Upper Egypt, while he travels several times a year to the United States and Europe because the materialistic life there...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2000
Shebl says the series of "Awan Al-Ward" led to discussions that Egyptians were in dire need of. Before the disaster of 1967 [in reference to the defeat of the six day war], there were no discussions about the relationship between Muslims and Christians. People were dealing with their companions on...
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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.