Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 2004 to Friday, December 3, 2004
US biologist Dean H. Hamer tries in his book The God Gene to focus on the issue of how faith is linked to our genes as he alleges that there are some genes responsible for man’s interest in spiritual aspects.
Date of source: Thursday, November 21, 2002
Ramadan is a time for meditation. It is a time for a special love for God, for the worldly to be connected with the eternal and for a stand with one´s self. It is a sigh for repentance, yearning for the purity of one´s self, the tears of the weak, before the Almighty and the cry of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Inter-religious dialogue is a substantial element in the dialogue among civilizations. Religion plays an important role in our world today. Throughout the history of humanity there are no civilizations that were established without a religious basis. All efforts to separate God from civilizations...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
The article in al-Musawwar has, in all likelyhood, a political background. It helps the government to test the ground whether or not the Mormon church should be granted a permit to function in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2002
In the article, Bishop Dr. Yohanna Qulta talks about the birth of Christ describing it as a beam of God´s light. He also speaks about national unity in Egypt stressing that being believers of different religions has never been a barrier before the coherence of Muslims and Copts. He believes that...
Date of source: Thursday, December 22, 2005
A number of Coptic organizations in the West have urged Egypt’s Copts to withdraw from the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), in protest at the party’s recent stance against Copts during the parliamentary elections.
Date of source: Thursday, December 22, 2005
A letter recommending the work of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation, Arab-West Understanding and Arab-West Report from Youhannā Qulta, Coptic Catholic Deputy Patriarch.
[Dr. Mgr. Youhannā Qulta is Coptic Catholic Deputy Patriarch] I sincerely appreciate and recommend the work of...
Date of source: Friday, December 16, 2005
In an exclusive statement to Rose al-Yousuf, Father Samīh Sābir of the U.S. Faculty of Theology has denied the claim, made by the Catholic patriarch, Bishop Youhannā Qultā, that Jesus Christ was crucified naked.
Date of source: Friday, December 16, 2005
The decision is a historic one for President Mubārak as it is an attempt to deepen the concept of citizenship and equality and came in response to those who allege that Copts are concerned about the Brotherhood’s coming to power and would leave Egypt in this case.
Date of source: Thursday, December 1, 2005
This is a translation of an article about the work of the Center for Arab-West Understanding from the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw.
Editor AWR: This article is very sharp. Senior editor Eildert Mulder has used formulations that Hulsman would never have used, but this is related to Mulder’s own...