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Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 2004
This is not the first time the ground in front of the Hanging Church has caved in. Government officials and architectural engineers have visited the Hanging Church after the initial collapse and they wrote reports about what happened. Nevertheless no action has been taken to permanently solve the...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Father Marqus Aziz Khalil congradulates the Egyptian people on the occasion of the Day of the Virgin Mary.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Most of the Egyptian papers and magazines devoted full pages to congratulate Christians on Christmas. Christian and Muslim writers believe that January 7 is considered a vivid example of Egyptian national unity.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Non-Muslims can easily announce their conversion to Islam and have identity cards and birth certificate issued which state their new religion, while non-Christians are not allowed to convert to Christianity.
Date of source: Saturday, May 12, 2007
Emigration, conversion [both legal and illegal], and the prohibition to re-embrace Christianity are the main reasons for the decreasing number of Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2007
The second session of the laymen’s conference was sequenced by a great uproar mainly caused by inaccurate media reporting. The laymen held what they called “a clarifying press conference” in which they tried to clarify the debatable issues reported by the press.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 8, 2007
The angry reaction of the Coptic Orthodox Church to the laymen’s conference made those announce their intention to file claims against two priests. While the laymen of the conference accused the church of corruption and tyranny, the latter accused them of apostasy, homosexuality, and compliance...
Date of source: Saturday, April 21, 2007
Rumors spread about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s intention to prepare statistics about the number of Copts in Egypt. While clergymen denied the news, they asserted that the official declared number of Copts was wrong and inaccurate.
Date of source: Monday, April 30, 2007
The article responds to the allegations of the Libyan president, Mu‘ammar al-Qadhdhāfī, who has attacked Christianity, claiming that the Bible is corrupt and Jesus was not crucified but someone else replaced him.
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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.