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Date of source: Sunday, April 6, 2008
The author comments on the personal status law for Christians, and questions why it has remained shelved for 30 years.
Date of source: Thursday, April 3, 2008
The article reports on the Coptic Orthodox Church’s celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary at al-Zaytūn church in 1968.
Date of source: Sunday, April 13, 2008
The author specifies why the Coptic Orthodox Church rejects the 1938 panel regarding Christians’ Personal Status Law. He mentions that the Coptic Orthodox Church has proposed a project Personal Status Law that was approved by all Christian denominations in Egypt, on more than one occasion but has...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Councilor Labīb discusses the financial authority of bishops. Church laws institute that a bishop has the authority to supervise and manage church funds in accordance with church laws and honest principles. He does not have the right to possess or use church funds or assets for his own benefit.
Date of source: Monday, March 24, 2008
“Miracles happen when people decide they do.” Al-Bāz argues that the famous miraculous apparition of the Holy Virgin in 1968 was the product of the historical and social situation and served the church, the people as well as the political leadership.
Date of source: Saturday, March 15, 2008
A defrocked monk distorted a letter in the name of Late Pope Kyrillos VI, addressed to Ben Gurion, the Israeli prime minister at the time. It was proved that the fake monk was seeking revenge against the church authorities that rejected him from a monastic life.
Date of source: Sunday, March 9, 2008
The article discusses reactions to a recent Supreme Administrative Court ruling which forces the Coptic Orthodox Church to allow Copts that have been divorced through civil courts to re-marry.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The article reviews a four-article series published in the daily al-Ahrār on a recent book by Max Michel Hannā – known as Bishop Maximus – on his personal experience with leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church, as well as his so-called reformatory tendency.
Date of source: Friday, February 29, 2008
Zākhir Mūsá calls to regain the real values of monastic life as a means of bringing about development to the church and Egypt in general. He criticizes the present ruling principles in Egypt’s monasteries and calls for change.
Date of source: Sunday, February 24, 2008
Wafā’ Wasfī republishes a 40-year old letter the then Bishop Shenouda of education sent to Dr. Sulaymān Nasīm, a former teacher at the Coptic Orthodox Clerical Seminary, about the prelate’s conflicts with some bishops during the papacy of Pope Kyrillos VI.
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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.