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An
Islamic-Christian dialogue conference was held in Cairo from December 18-20. All the participants stressed
the
importance of building a "culture of dialogue" that can face the challenges confronting the Arab
societies from
outside and inside. The conference presented "A charter for a...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 28, 2003
The author comments on the relations between Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem and on the city itself as a symbol of their national unity.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 25, 2002
The spokesman for the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem says that Christians all over the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ except Christians in His birthplace. He expresses agreement with Pope Shenouda’s mandate to avoid visiting Jerusalem as long as it is under the control of Israel. He...
Date of source: Friday, August 23, 2002
The Israeli police has detained Archimandrite Attallah Hanna, the spokesman of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, to investigate him concerning allegations that he helps terrorist organizations. Muslim and Christian clergymen asked Israel to acquit Hanna, as his detention is a violation of...
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2000
Pope Shenouda says that the doors of repentance are still open before the excommunicated New Testament group. He says that the church was not contented with stripping the leaders of the group of their ecclesiastical ranks, but furthermore the church is following up the issue on the national level...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 16, 2002
The Israeli paper Haaretz reports that the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem sent the Israeli president a message in which he condemned the martyrdom operations. He said to the paper, “I am a Greek and have neither political nor national relations with the Palestinians.”
Date of source: Sunday, July 14, 2002
Patriarch Erinious of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem deposed Father Attallah Hanna, the official spokesman of the church, and appointed a Greek priest in his place because he had refused to condemn martyrdom operations – which followers of the Church considered was submission to Israeli orders....
Date of source: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
In the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, one fact is made evident while another is totally eclipsed. The evident fact is the way the Palestinian intifada is ascribed to Islam and Islam is linked to terrorism, while the absent fact is the role of the Christian Palestinians. The former...
Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2005
Irineos I lied when he said he knew nothing about the deal, for published documents indicated that he knew all about the slightest details. It turned out that Irineos has given legal authority to the fugitive financial agent Nikos Papadimas, who used to run the patriarchy’s real estate affairs. The...
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2005
The Holy Synod of the [Greek] Orthodox Church, which is the biggest orthodox clerical organization in Palestine, decided to defrock Patriarch Irineos, for reasons of selling church property to colonizing organizations [reference to selling Greek Orthodox property, land and buildings, to Israel,...
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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.