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Date of source: Monday, September 10, 2007
Three Coptic thinkers denounce Nāhid Mitwallī’s insults against Islam and stress the values of the freedom of creed and the respect for all
Date of source: Monday, September 3, 2007
The article sheds light on the reactions of Muslim and Christian figureheads to the news that the U.S. Administration may re-construct its annual aid to Egypt in order to focus on supporting Coptic non-governmental organizations
Date of source: Friday, August 31, 2007
Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá discusses a suggestion from thinker Samīr Marqus who has asked for a committee to examine the inclinations of individuals who intend to convert from one religion to another. Mūsá, however, refers to the absence of concepts of citizenship and civil state as the main roots of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Pope Shenouda issued a document in which he called for innovation in the clerical discourse in the Coptic Orthodox Church. While the document could gain the appreciation of the Coptic Orthodox clergymen and a considerable number of activist laymen, another group of the laymen considers it both a...
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2007
Coptic thinker Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá refers to the changes that have taken place in the Egyptian society concerning the relations between Muslims and Christians, believing that relations in the past were better. He emphasizes the importance of tolerance and love between different communities in one...
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2007
Laymen believe that the Coptic Orthodox Church does not have real laws and relies on legal texts scattered in the fathers’ books and the researches that were written in different eras. A number of their proposed reforms are discussed in this article.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Recently, there have been several calls for an administrative change in the Coptic Orthodox Church. A member of the Community Council announced that the church has formed a committee to discuss the proposed changes and amendments. The following lines will present different clergy and laymen’s...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Aḥmad al-Sa‘dāwī discussed the issue of divorce among Copts in Egypt, referring to the recent marriage of the Coptic actress Hālah Ṣidqī as a case in point of Coptic divorcees receiving permission from the church to re-marry.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 31, 2007
A Coptic laymen’s group called for radical changes in the system and rules of the Coptic Orthodox patriarch elections. The suggestions were severely rejected by the church and a wide range of Copts. Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá, purportedly the leader of the laymen’s group, wrote an article explaining his...
Date of source: Thursday, July 19, 2007
Coptic thinker Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá asserted that Copts enjoy more freedom of religion than Muslims, in a symposium organized by the Scientific and Culture Association.
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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.