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Date of source: Monday, March 1, 2004
Sat-7, a satellite channel targeting Christian viewers made a
clarification saying that it does not air the program “Questions in Faith,” which outlines the
difference in faith between Christianity and Islam. The program is actually aired on Hayat TV.
The following day Pope Shenouda appeared on...
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 2004
In 1989,
the Coptic Museum in Cairo began a project to restore icons in cooperation with the Dutch Susanna
Skalova. The Coptic Orthodox Church and the Supreme Council of Antiquities have also begun a big
project, funded by an American research center, to count and study more than 2000 icons.
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2004
This report explains the escalations following the alleged conversion of a priest’s wife to Islam. Much background is given to the cultural context that explain why such an issue is so sensitive in Egypt. The report also shows that several of the organizers of the demonstration in Cairo have done...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 20, 2004
French journalist De Coursac made sensational claims and wild conspiracy theories in al-Usbū‘ and Sawt al-Umma without making any effort to verify the information.
AWR is helping in producing a film on the Holy Family tradition in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
Several journalists consulted AWR for information about issues such as alleged conversions.
Date of source: Monday, March 28, 2005
The Coptic Orthodox Church defrocked
Father Yu’annis Zakī Sidrāk after a number of Copts lodged complaints that he had collected money from them for
personal business.
Date of source: Sunday, March 20, 2005
Before I talk about the advising sessions held for those who wish to convert to Islam, I would like to tell a story that may help explain the importance of such sessions to the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2005
Why should not Egypt, thanks to its current dialogue with Israel, demand the return of the Al-Sultan Monastery to the Coptic Orthodox Church?
Israeli occupation forces seized it on April 25, 1970, and then handed it over to the Abyssinians.
Date of source: Monday, March 14, 2005
Copt lodges complaint against Pope Shenouda
The personal status prosecution is considering a complaint lodged by a Christian woman against the Coptic Orthodox Church and its Representative Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, over a canon law pertaining to marriage. This law...
Date of source: Monday, March 14, 2005
Satellite stations have televised demonstrators gathering in front of the Mār Girgis Church in al-Fayyoum. They demanded the handover of the Medicine Faculty graduates, Maryān Makram Girgis and Teresa ‘Ayyād Ibrāhīm, back to the Coptic Orthodox Church. These demonstrations had been spurred by...
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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.