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Date of source: Monday, October 23, 2006
The author asserts that
Bishop Bīshūy has been working effectively to try and remove Kamāl Zākhir
Mūsá, writer and thinker, from the Coptic Orthodox church.
Date of source: Friday, September 22, 2006
The author in this series of articles criticizes Archbishop Bīshūy, the Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Holy Synod, and refutes the top clergyman’s claims about him, demanding that a trial to be held for himself and Archbishop Bīshūy instead of leaving "this authoritarian way of thinking" to...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
The expected conference for Coptic Orthodox youth on the ‘Da Vinci Code’ novel and discord between Pope Shenounda and Father Mattá al- Maskīn and Max Michel has already sparked controversy.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 2, 1997
The bishop responded
to an article written in
Al-Akhbar of June 29, 1997, written by Kamal Zakher Musa, who suggested that
the church in Egypt was
involved in deceit, and questioned the consecration and age of new bishops. Bishop
Musa explains that believers
cannot be left without bishops,...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 13, 2006
This article talks about the annual Faith Deepening
Conference which will be held soon,
and the current disputes between the church, secularists, and the
Ecclesiastical Reform Group.
Date of source: Saturday, August 12, 2006 to Friday, August 18, 2006
‘Adil Sa‘d discusses some of the mistakes in the new version of the bible produced by the
Orthodox church and suggests some of the motivations behind the new book.
Date of source: Saturday, July 1, 2006 to Friday, July 7, 2006
The Coptic community wonders who will succeed Pope
Shenouda after illness strikes him?
Although regulations stipulating the transfer of church power will give
bishops, monks and priests the opportunity
to stand for elections, elections are now confined only to
general bishops.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 28, 2006
The
recent decision of the People’s Assembly to ban ‘The Da Vinci Code’ has provoked
considerable
controversy amongst Egyptian intellectuals, dividing opinions between those who defended the
movie on grounds of
freedom of expression and those who condemned it as blasphemous and misleading.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
When first published, the “DaVinci Code” was banned from many Arab nations, including Egypt and Lebanon. The film version is now also being banned in many nations, but it will play in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE. There is a fear, however, that the censoring of the film may serve to increase...
Date of source: Monday, June 5, 2006
Fādī
Habashī interviews Bishop Mousā, the bishop of youth, and discusses
with him the current problems
Copts are facing.
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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.