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Date of source: Monday, July 19, 2004
Monk Basilious, one of Father Matta Al-Maskeen’s close disciples, was stunned by the clergy’s “storm in a teacup” debate about the movie “Baheb Al-Sima” [I love Cinema’, considering it one of the most remarkably strange preoccupations in Coptic minds. He wonders who encouraged Coptic youth to...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Father Basilius al-Maqārī exaggerated in AWR, 2005, week 16, art. 46, in my opinion, the parallel between Church clericalism and Islamism. Coptic clergy have been politically active but they do not seek power as Islamists do.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Father Basilius of the Monastery of Makarius responds to the articles of Dr. John Watson [week21] and Amīr Mīlād [week 22] about the Wādī al-Rayyān, providing more details, showing the hierarchical structure of the church that does not accept individual monks going their own way.
Date of source: Friday, November 22, 2002
Visit to the monasteries of Makarios, St. Bishoi and the Syrian organized by RNSAW.
Report on the succession of Pope Shenouda.
Discussion about supposedly anti-semitic news in Washington Post.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2002
Highlighting an important interview with Metropolitan Bishoi.
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2003
Articles with exaggerations and inflammatory language.
Announcement of new excursions to different parts of Egypt organized by AWR.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2003
The dangerous role media is playing in the ongoing polarization between the Western and Islamic worlds.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Comments on the article of Dr. Zeinab ‘Abdel Aziz in October Magazine in which she attacks Christian faith. Articles like this have a negative impact on Arab-West and Muslim-Christian relations.
Dutch Catholic priest Brother Piet Lindner, friend of AWR, passed away.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Dr. Cornelis Hulsman, the expert on the Holy Family tradition in Egypt, arranged access for myself and my friend to the St. Macarius Monastery the only one of four monasteries still active since the time of the Desert Fathers in Wadi Natrun, that is closed to the public. What’s more, the visit...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2005
The article of ‘Imāra [AWR, 2005, week 14, art. 17] provides correct information about the councils of the Orthodox Church in the seventies and the efforts of the Church to interfere in the civil-secular and political affairs of the Copts.
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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.