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Date of source: Monday, January 10, 2005
Each time a sectarian incident blows up between Muslims and Copts in Egypt, the churches construction issue is brought up. It is now deep-rooted in minds that the government is fighting the Copts and the building of churches.
Date of source: Monday, January 10, 2005
When Mukhtār Nouh was released in 2002, he carried a reconciliation initiative between the government and the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet, his initiative was rejected by the elders of the Brotherhood who distrust a government that arrests and tortures its members and aims at eradicating the group.
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2005
In the wake of Wafā’ Costantine, Muhammad al-Bāz discusses the reasons why Christian girls convert to Islam. Al-Bāz mentions divorce in Christianity as one of the main factors behind the phenomenon.
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2005
Sawt al-Umma publishes the full text of an email sent to the editor commenting on Muhammad al-Bāz’s article last week on Pope Shenouda’s handling of the most recent incidents of sectarian violence.
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2005
A group of prominent Coptic figures mediated between Sawt al-Umma and the group that filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General. The complaint accused editor-in-chief ‘Ādil Hammoudah and Muhammad al-Bāz of instigating sectarian strife and cursing Pope Shenouda.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 12, 2001
The Sheikh of the Azhar lost a lot of his supporters because of his latest statement about attacking Israeli civilians. All who saw the massacres committed by the Israelis against the Palestinians rejected his statement. Sheikh Al-Qaradawi believed that his statement was unrelated to reality.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 8, 2001
The article gives an overview of how Amr Khalid became a preacher. The author believes that he would soon be forgotten if he were prevented from preaching, especially as he does not say anything new, but just used a different discourse.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 6, 2001
Khalil Abdel-Karim, the author of "The formation period in the life of Mohammed," reached the conclusion that the first wife of Mohammed was Christian. He also discussed Mohammed’s many marriages. The author believes that there is nothing wrong in discussing such things and that the Azhar Scholars...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 9, 2001
The monastery of Saint Macarius, from which Fa’iq Zaka Bolous, the former monk, escaped, responded to his confessions, which were published in Sout Al-Umma. In their reply, they accused him of narcissism, autism and avoidance. They explained the monk’s confessions as a conspiracy to defame the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2001
In his 1982-book "Our Fasts Between the Past and the Present...Their Spiritual Essences and Historical Roots," Father Kyrillos Kyrillos, the priest of Mar Girgis church, in Khamoria, touched upon the issue of fasting in Christianity. He stated that the way the fasts in the Orthodox Church are now...
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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.