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Date of source: Wednesday, September 20, 2000
Everyone interested in Egypt and its history will be excited by this Coptic exhibition in France. The same exhibition was presented at the Institut de Monde Arabe in Paris from May to September this year. It is a stunning and artistically radiant presentation of the classical Coptic period in...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 1, 2000
In this article, the Revd. Dr. John H. Watson comments on Adel Hamouda’s article on father Matta el-Meskeen that was published in Al-Arabi of July 23, 2000. Watson believes Hamouda’s article "is an extraordinarily interesting article for all who are concerned with the life of the Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: Sunday, July 23, 2000
Subtitles: * Sadat ruled him out of the vote for a new Pope and then later gave him three hundred fidans in the desert. * He was the first monk to have a university qualification and Pope Shenouda was one of his followers in the monastery. * He said to me that Sadat’s eyes were red when he got...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 12, 2000
Father Matta Al-Maskeen succeeded in closing the curtain on one of the deepest divisions in the history of the Coptic church when he told His Excellency Pope Shenouda III on television that he would concede on the issue of the farm of the monastery of Saint Maqarios, which lies at the seventy...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 1, 2000 to Monday, February 7, 2000
This is a review of Emad Eddin Adib’s book "The Life Story of Pope Shenouda". If you wanted to know the character of Pope Shenouda, you can summarize it in the fact that he wanted to give his life to worship, being secluded from the world, since he choose monasticism.
Date of source: Saturday, December 25, 1999
The author briefly outlines the nationalist cooperation and generally peaceful coexistence of Muslims and Christians in Egypt over the last century. Yet in view of certain repeated accusations of Coptic Christians he asks the questions: Is there a deterioration in the principle of citizenship that...
Date of source: Friday, December 3, 1999
The Coptic church assigned Bishop Benjamin of Minufia to receive the medallion of honor for Pope Kyrollos the Sixth [posthumously, the pope past away in 1971]. The bishop says that the relations between Christians and Moslems in Minufia are very special, to such an extent that some Copts build...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 1999
Since the Nasserist Party was established in 1992, it has placed the issue of national unity among its priorities. This is obvious in the party’s programs and its activities. This is quite natural because if the Nasserist Party would not do this, the party’s association with the name of Gamal Abd...
Date of source: Monday, June 7, 1999
The writer argues that the current regulation in the Coptic Orthodox Church governing the selection and election of a new pope contains a number of gross breaches and contradictory violations of laws of the church and the principle of the "right of the people to elect their patron," and calls for...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 1999 to Friday, May 14, 1999
An anonymous Coptic Christian writes on the problem of divorced Copts. He cites statements by two legal counselors who say that the courts should decide the matter of permissions to remarry for divorced Coptic Orthodox Christians, and says that prohibition of permission of their remarriage is a...
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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.