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Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 2004
The purpose of this article is to show Western readers to be careful with Christian persecution stories from Egypt, they may be true but also may not be true. The great difficulty is that there are many rumors flying around that are mostly not investigated. Most examples of rumors for this article...
Date of source: Saturday, December 28, 2002
The three authors criticize reporting in the Layman, an American Presbyterian publication, claiming Christians in Egypt are persecuted. They believe the author of this article was ill-informed and provided readers with wrong information. The Layman got the opportunity to respond to their criticism...
Date of source: Saturday, November 9, 2002 to Friday, November 15, 2002
The administrative court issued a decree that allows fired priest Andraous Aziz to come back to work. This might draw the church into crisis, especially if it tries to counteract the judicial decision. It also may limit the authority of the church over religious men.
Date of source: Monday, November 4, 2002
State Council Court established a legal principle stating that the decrees of the Orthodox Church are considered administrative decrees that can be appealed. The establishment of this principle came after the Administrative Court announced its verdict invalidating a decree issued by Pope Shenouda...
Date of source: Saturday, November 2, 2002 to Friday, November 8, 2002
The celebration of the 31st anniversary of Pope Shenouda on the Papal chair is expected to take place on November 14. It will be attended by the Eritrean President. The article gives an overview of how the celebration may be. It also gives an outline of the pope´s life before and after...
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2002 to Friday, October 4, 2002
Excommunication is the capital punishment that can be handed down to a clergyman, if he committed an irrecoverable mistake. A priest said that there is no written ecclesiastical law for excommunication, which means that it is a punishment that is left to the judgment of the bishops.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Semitics are the group of peoples that inhabit the Near East and speak one of the Semitic languages, such as, Babylonian, Syrian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Arabic and Hebrew. This means that Jews are not the only Semites. Arabs also are Semites and any attack on Islam and Muslims is to be considered...
Date of source: Monday, August 26, 2002
Pope Shenouda discusses with 130 bishops and priests, serving the Coptic Orthodox Church in the USA, possible ways to deepen the relationships between emigrant Copts and their mother church in Egypt. He also discusses with them how to activate cooperation between Christianity and other religions,...
Date of source: Saturday, August 24, 2002
Pope Shenouda commented in New York on many issues, such as, the United States´ approach in combating terrorism, the Palestinian issue and the American rage over the case of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2002 to Friday, August 23, 2002
Despite the fact that the Ethiopian Church follows the beliefs of the Coptic Orthodox Church and has been under its spiritual control till 1959, the relationship between the two churches has gone through times of conflicts, influenced by the political relationships between Egypt and Ethiopia.
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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.