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Date of source: Sunday, August 10, 1997
The author sees groups inside and outside Egypt as plotting against the country’s national unity. These are Zionists in the USA and terrorists inside Egypt. He gives examples from history. Whatever happens, he argues that national unity must remain intact and the Coptic Orthodox Church proved to be...
Date of source: Friday, June 13, 1997
The article gives an Islamic view on the history of the Arab conquering of Christian
Egypt.
The article ends of views of different leading Muslims on the Hamayouni Law, the law regulating the
building of
churches.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 13, 2006
This article is about an ancient manuscript that
describes
the Islamic conquest of Egypt. The author says that its translation is biased and that the
translator tampered with
the original text.
Date of source: Friday, March 31, 2006
The author believes that Islam rescued eastern Christianity from being exterminated during the Byzantine period. He then says it is ingratitude of the Egyptian church to begin a policy of Christianizing Muslims.
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2003
In a lecture he gave in the Library of Alexandria, Pope Shenouda III commented on many issues: The fact that the US and Israel are thought of as representatives of Christianity and Judaism, the Palestinian and Iraqi issues, Zionist Christianity and Coptic history.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 20, 2004
The article discusses the issue of national unity between Christians and Muslims in Egypt. The author cites the relation of love and intimate friendship between Pope Shenouda and the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Tantawi. Bibawi tells a story about Amr Bin Al-As who returned the head of the St. Mark...
Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2005
When ‘Amr Bin al-‘Āss conquered Egypt, Islam did not only free land and religious consciousness from the Roman Byzantine colonization, but also freed the Egyptian Orthodox churches.
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2001
The article gives an overview of the patriotic role Copts played throughout the history of Egypt. It also speaks about Christianity in Egypt and how it stood against atheist movements and laid the foundations of true Christianity for the Christian world.
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2001
The article touches upon the achievements of Pope Shenouda during his 30 years of being a Patriarch. He applied the church law which states that the Bishopric inherits bishops and not the Patriarchy. He also allowed promotion of fathers to bishops according to who deserves it without limiting it...
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2001
When Muslims conquered Egypt, they realized that the most dangerous issue in Egypt during the Byzantine rule was religion and interference in the Egyptian’s faith. Muslim politicians started to establish the principle declared by the Qur’an that is there is no compulsion in religion. The result was...
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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.