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Date of source: Saturday, April 1, 2017
Most Muslims in Egypt do not have good impressions of Christian missionaries in Egypt. We earlier, in 2004, had discussions about this in Arab-West Report. There are good reasons for these negative impressions since there are indeed Christians proclaiming their faith and speaking very negatively...
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Reverend Jerry Lamon Falwell was born on August 11, 1933 in Lynchburg, Virginia and deceased in May 2007. In 1967, Falwell created an evangelical educational institution called the Lynchburg Christian Academy. The most echoing case of insult caused by Falwell was September 2002, when he gave an...
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We often hear about the radical statements and fatwás of Muslims and about uncompromising Christian or secular activists who can appeal to populist sentiments and mistrust of the ‘other’.
Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2007
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman and Mads Akselbo Holm discuss the media coverage and accounts of the South Korean Christians who were being held hostage by the Ṭalibān. The authors show this issue contributed to a negative Muslim image of Christian missionaries.
Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2007
AWR report on Christian missionary work in Muslim countries, taking Korean Christian volunteers or missionaries as an example.
Discussion of Islamic Endowments in Egypt.
Several Arab media outlets showed their anger about the American Coptic Union calling Pope Shenouda a powerless Pope.
Date of source: Friday, February 22, 2008
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman discusses the recent controversy stirred up by Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ film ’Fitna.’ He points to a number of articles in this issue that directly respond to the film, stressing the need for dialogue rather than an abuse of freedom of expression in building bridges between the...
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Muslims responding to terrorism, following the attacks in London and Sharm al-Sheikh and the dangers of identity politics.
Date of source: Saturday, June 21, 2003 to Friday, June 27, 2003
US police in the state of North Carolina arrested Erick Rudolf. Rudolf is a Christian extremist accused of bombing two abortion clinics, a nightclub for homosexuals and the bombing in Atlanta during the Olympics of 1996. What Rudolf did is an expression of religious extremist movements beginning to...
Date of source: Thursday, March 27, 2003
The author comments on an article in the Egyptian daily Akhbar about American Baptist/Evangelical belief in Armageddon. The Bible says that there will be a battle perhaps in the next few decades to take place in Israel. The Bible gives a number of signs occurring in that period and from this we can...
Date of source: Saturday, February 15, 2003
Rev. Jeff Adams was deeply hurt when he realized “how many Westerners, and especially Christians, make off-handed remarks about Islam that merely fuel the fires of passion and deepen the gulf that divides us.”
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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.