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Date of source: Thursday, December 25, 2003
In the second article about fasting, Father Marcos stresses the importance of abstaining from pronouncing bad words during fasting: “Do not say that you are fasting truly while your tongue is not fasting [abstaining from pronouncing bad words]”.
Date of source: Monday, December 22, 2003
Father Marcos Aziz Khalil argues that the kind of fasting the Coptic Church observes, which involves abstention from food and drink for a certain period of the day and then eating vegetarian non-fat food, is not a human-made order but a divine one. God made this order Himself and it was written...
Date of source: Thursday, December 11, 2003
The article is about fasting and its spiritual significance. The total number of days of fasting in the Coptic Orthodox Church is 239 days per year. This means that Copts fast two thirds of the year.
Date of source: Thursday, December 4, 2003
Citing verses from the “Gospel of Barnabas,” the Holy Bible and the Qur’an, Father Marcos Aziz Khalil verifies that the counterfeited gospel contradicts with the both the Holy Bible and the Qur’an.
Date of source: Thursday, November 20, 2003
The article is a response to an article published in the weekly magazine of Rose Al-Youssef under the title “Barnabas, the author of the prohibited book.” With the aim of verifying that the gospel of Barnabas is not an authentic gospel, the author mentions the history of the gospel, quotations from...
Date of source: Monday, November 24, 2003
Publications that reach the hands of Orthodox Copts from other different denominations became a noticeable phenomenon to which the Coptic Orthodox Church gave its attention some time ago, considering them to be one of the attempts of other denominations to practice missionary activities among its...
Date of source: Thursday, November 13, 2003
On the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the accession of Pope Shenouda to the throne of Saint Mark, the author provides answers to questions over the status of the Patriarch of the Coptic church, his titles and rituals of ordination.
Date of source: Thursday, November 6, 2003
Al-Midan published five articles, four by Coptic priests, attacking Habeel Tawfiq Sa’id, an ex-wine dealer who founded a new Christian denomination which he called the Sons of Paul the Apostle. Sa’id declared himself the pope of the new denomination.
Date of source: Sunday, November 2, 2003
The author quotes two letters he has received. The first letter comments on a fire in a garage near the Church of the Great Martyr Mar Girgis and St. Bashnona. The second letter explains the criteria for the election of a patriarch. Habeel Tawfiq Sa’id does not meet those criteria and is not a...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The author mentions the consequences of the publication of his previous article about a man called Habeel who claimed himself the pope of a new Christian denomination. The signs carrying the names of his NGO, church and patriarchy were removed from the front of flat he used as a headquarters.
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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.