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Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2004
Yesterday, the Grand Imam of the Azhar Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi and Pope Shenouda III witnessed the signing of the Islamic-Christian dialogue agreement. Sheikh Hamed Al-Rafa’i, chairman of the Global Islamic Forum for Dialogue, and Girgis Saleh, secretary general of the Middle East Council of...
Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2005
The Women Committee affiliated to the Middle East Council of Churches held a forum in Cairo where the participants debated citizenship, pillars of coexistence for all citizens, the risk of marginalization, reasons behind some youths’ poor belonging to the country and disengagement between religion...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 18, 2002
President Mubarak’s decision to make Coptic Christmas, January 7, a national holiday.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Father Christiaan van Nispen supported the foundation of the RNSAW/AWR from the very first moment and provided strong intellectual input. Not many people are as well acquainted with Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt as Father van Nispen who has been in Egypt since 1962, studied Arabic and Islam...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2003
European churches leaders, in consultation with councils of churches in the USA and the Middle East, remain extremely concerned with the continued calls for military action against Iraq by the US and some European governments. The leaders advocate a peaceful resolution of the current conflicts....
28. For the first time…The Orthodox Church opens a dialogue with an American Protestant denomination
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
The Coptic Church announced its new initiative to support dialogue among the three Christian denominations: Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant. Pope Shenouda held a special celebration for one of the biggest Protestant institutions working in Egypt, Dar Al-Kitab Al-Moqaddas [Bible Society]. This...
Date of source: Monday, July 19, 2004
Last Friday night, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom arrived in Cairo in a secretive atmosphere. The Commission delivered a brief statement concerning the objectives of the visit, which takes place between July 16 and July 23. The Commission is paving the way for the...
Date of source: Sunday, November 14, 2004
Christl Dabu visited Egypt in August 2004 for an investigative report about Muslim-Christian
relations in Egypt, resulting in this article and several travel and news articles. This article
was placed in AWR with permission of the author.
Date of source: Sunday, April 17, 2005
Some might say chances for other candidates
in the presidential elections are so meager, and chances for Copts to win are even less, so why waste time, effort and money
on something whose loss is as sure as death and taxes.
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
In a final statement at the end of the first round of dialogue between the International Islamic Forum for Dialogue
(IIFD), ulamā’, and Middle Eastern priests, they all concurred to having the interfaith and intercultural dialogue a
religious duty incumbent on the followers of both religions.
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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.