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Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
A controversial article on the growing Islamization of Egypt and the effect this has on the Coptic community.
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2006
This French author writes about the global cartoon crisis of 2006. He holds that in a democracy, freedom of the press is total. For the government to interfere is out of the question. However, he adds that the legal system can always be used by anyone who feels that legitimate rights have been...
Date of source: Friday, September 26, 2003
The author continues to comment on what he believes is an American attack on Islam that started with the September 11 disaster. He comments on the participation of Europe in this attack.
Date of source: Saturday, September 20, 2003 to Friday, September 26, 2003
The author comments on the conditions of Muslims in Spain, the first mosque to be established in Granada five centuries after Muslims were driven out of Spain. There are 200,000 Muslims in Spain, including many new converts to Islam. Some examples of new Muslims are given.
Date of source: Sunday, July 10, 2005
I do not doubt for a single moment that Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a has been abreast in detail of the instructions given to the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, from the presidency about from the campaign of support for the president in Egyptian mosques, which,...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2006
The author argues that Islamists use democracy as a Trojan horse until they reach power, when they then start another strategy which the author calls "the terrorizing of democracy", applying a version of autocracy under Islamist ideologies.
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2005
The sectarian tensions in Alexandria are linked by the author to the electoral campaign between Copts and Muslims in Alexandria.
Date of source: Sunday, October 16, 2005
An article claiming that French women, who have converted to Islam, are being recruited for Jihād.
In an interview, Pope Shenouda III answers questions about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s stance towards expatriate Copts and the conference they were to hold to discuss persecution of Copts in Egypt....
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2005
Benedict XVI, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, praised during his installation what he called the common spiritual heritage of Christians and Jews.
The pontiff offered greetings to “my Jewish brothers and sisters, with whom we are joined by a great shared spiritual heritage, one rooted in God’s...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
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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.