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Date of source: Monday, December 15, 2003
The article is an interview with Abdel Massih Nasr who attempted to assassinate Pope Yousab the 115th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, in September 1955. He spoke about his attempt and the reasons behind it. Nasr, who was affiliated with the Coptic Nation group, was twenty years old when he...
Date of source: Monday, December 1, 2003
Pope Shenouda recently stated that the 1957 regulation is fair, yet it may stand as an obstacle before persons with good qualifications and well-know names who became monks a few years ago, as the regulation stipulates that a candidate to the papal chair should have spent 15 years as a monk. Any...
Date of source: Monday, September 8, 2003
Pope Shenouda declared that he would start an international campaign against homosexuality. He revealed to the Middle East News Agency that he received death threats while he was in Australia because of his stand against homosexuality.
Date of source: Friday, September 5, 2003
The Holy Council of the Orthodox Church condemned legalizing homosexuality either through acknowledging the marriages of homosexuals or having them appointed as clergymen, as happened lately with the homosexual bishop of New Hampshire, US
Date of source: Monday, July 14, 2003
Open letter to US President George W. Bush claiming Christian girls in Egypt are kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam. The president is asked to interfere and if he does not, his “Christian posturing is nothing more than "showboating" for the next election.” This was the text Abdallah Kamal of...
Date of source: Thursday, May 18, 2006
Metropolitan Abba Seraphim’s critique of a paper by Bishop Munīr on the relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt, presented at the annual interfaith dialogue meeting of the Anglican communion and the Permanent Committee of the Azhar al-Sharif for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Bishop Marqus comments on Bishop Munīr’s text on “Christian minorities in the Islamic world; an Egyptian perspective.”
Date of source: Friday, July 4, 2003
The article is an interview with Ibrahim Fahmi Helal, the leader of the Coptic Nation Party [Umma al-Qibtiya], a right wing group that was established during the time of Pope Yousab. The group wanted the Coptic people to speak the ancient Coptic language and to cancel the constitutional articles...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Background information on Metropolitan Seraphim, head of the British Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2006
The review deals with the issue of Coptic divorce and Egyptian Orthodox Pope Shenouda’s position rejecting a recent court ruling allowing divorced Copts to remarry.
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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.