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Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2004
Since 1971, religious problems have started to emerge on the Egyptian scene tangibly, albeit not in a very serious manner. Muslims and Christians clashed in the city of Al-Khanka. Following Al-Khanka incident, a committee affiliated with the People's Assembly visited the incident site and offered a...
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2004
Last Wednesday, the Human Rights and Democracy Office, affiliated with the US Department of State released the International Religious Freedom Report of 2004. The report includes 13 pages about Egypt. We are publishing [an Arabic translation of] the text of the report.
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
I found a very strange letter sent on the September 2, 2004 to the US president George Bush and nine American pubic figures who are congressmen and members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedoms. This strange letter has a very astonishing title reading “An official at the American...
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
When Mustafa Bakry [editor of Al-Usboa] published the details of the report of the visit of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom [to Egypt], he was right. I am very interested in this issue, so I want to point out some comments concerning the issue of American interference in...
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 2004
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom demanded that Egypt should financially compensate Egyptian Jews who immigrated to the US for the loss of their possessions and money. But this very same committee has ignored Egypt’s demands to reopen the investigations concerning the killing and...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
Akhbar Al-Yom interviewed Pope Shenouda III during his visit to the US. In this interview Pope Shenouda speaks about politics, religion and his relationship with Muslim leaders. Pope Shenouda voices his rejection of extremism and foreign interference in Arab affairs under false pretext. Pope...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 11, 2004
On the first day of his visit to the US to examine the Coptic churches and community there, Pope Shenouda confirmed that the relationship uniting Muslims and Copts does not need religious dialogue. Pope Shenouda, moreover, described the permanent dialogue between the Church and the Azhar as a...
Date of source: Monday, August 2, 2004
When Sawt Al-Umma published an article on July 25, 2004 written by Essam Lotfy entitled “Those who pursue paradise in the courts of law…Dismissing Mamdouh Nakhla and Nagib Gibrail from the Word Center,” we did not mean to offend anyone. However, some of the article’s words were not accurate or...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Dr. Al-Awa stated that Copts are no longer Ahl-Al-Dhimma [free non-Muslim subject living in a Muslim country, who in return for paying capital tax, receives protection and safety] Instead they are the original natives of Egypt. When Egypt was occupied by European countries, Copts and Muslims united...
Date of source: Sunday, July 25, 2004
Sectarian clashes between Christians and Muslims flared up on the Internet and satellite TV channels at the time of the suspicious visit of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, which came to Egypt with the aim of creating friction.
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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.