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Date of source: Friday, February 16, 2001
The Grand Imam held a meeting with the heads of the Protestant churches of France and Switzerland. During this meeting, he said that all heavenly religions call for inter religious dialogue among their followers. The delegation of churches confirmed that dialogue between religions is an effective...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 16, 2001
The Azhar Dialogue Committee’s activities are exclusively visiting Rome. The committee is not trying to change the unfair concept of Islam and Muslims that is firmly established in the minds of Westerners. The Dialogue Committee became the subject of many questions and doubts. The dialogue between...
Date of source: Friday, December 22, 2000
The deputy of the Permanent Committee for inter-Religious Dialogue of the Azhar stated that the UN is preparing the foundation of a supreme consultative council of religions which will include the heads of religions in the world. The task of the council is expected to be consulted in all decisions...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Sheikh Fawzy Al-Zafzaf, the head of the Inter-Religious Dialogue Committee of the Azhar received the delegation of the Austrian Committee of Permanent Dialogue. The delegation asked many questions about women’s rights in Islam, especially that of Christian women who were divorced from their Muslim...
Date of source: Monday, November 6, 2000
The web site of the Evangelical churches announced the meeting between the representatives of the Egyptian Christian churches and the Azhar Permanent Committee of Inter-Religious Dialogue. The purpose of the meeting is to issue a joint statement that strongly condemns the killing of women,...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 12, 2000
In this article, the author asks many questions and listed many opinions regarding the case of sheikha Manal, who claimed to be a Sufi leader and a prophetess. He raised also asked who could protect female intellectuals from religious mania.
Date of source: Monday, August 21, 2000
The inter-religious dialogue, which was agreed upon during the visit of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Egypt last February, has been postponed, awaiting the reply of the Vatican to a memo from Al Azhar. The memo asked the pope to apologize about the crusader wars, exactly as he did regarding...
Date of source: Friday, May 26, 2000
The presidency of the Azhar Permanent Committee of Inter-Religious Dialogue, and the official Islamic institutes in Morocco, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, are working together to stimulate the Vatican to present the Muslims an official apology. The reason behind asking such an apology, is the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2000
After viewing the document, the Azhar’s committee for dialogue officially requested the Pontifical council for inter-religious dialogue to make an addition to the agenda of the joint committee of the Azhar and the Vatican. The additional item is "discussion of our request for fair and objective...
Date of source: Thursday, March 30, 2000
A list is given of the Azhar delegates to the current meeting at the Vatican between representatives of the Azhar and the Vatican.
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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.