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Father Marcos Aziz Khalil of the Hanging Church began a series of articles in Al-Midan newspaper under the title "The Secrets Behind the Conflicts between Christian Denominations." He criticizes Protestant churches and warns members of the Orthodox Church against their teachings. The series is in...
Date of source: Sunday, April 13, 2003
Priests as well as sheikhs and imams have always been exempted from paying taxes. However, a recently issued decree by the Taxation Authority stipulates that the sum collected by priests in return for the religious services they perform in churches and for registering marriage contracts are subject...
Date of source: Sunday, March 16, 2003
The author comments on the court ruling in Al-Kosheh case that convicted only two persons from among 96 defendants.
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2003
The Church of the Virgin Mary in the village of al-Munshaa al Kobra has been trying to obtain a building license for an old age home attached to it. However, the authorities deal with the building as a church building and not as an ordinary building. Thus the project should go along the road...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 to Sunday, August 21, 2005
Today I go back to a problem which I tackled on several occasions during the past months in Watani’s ‘Problems on Hold’ series, and which concerns complaints from readers against the Civil Register Authority (CRA).
Date of source: Sunday, August 7, 2005
Is Egypt a police State? The question is frequently raised at home and abroad. Since we are on the threshold of all-encompassing reforms, especially on the political level, the issue warrants candid, transparent discussion.
Date of source: Sunday, July 31, 2005
For the second time in less than one year, the hand of black terror struck at Sinai—last week in Sharm al-Sheikh and last October in Taba. Since the bloody terrorist attack on Hatshepsut temple in Luxor in 1997, Egypt had enjoyed a period of relative calm, and we had come to feel ourselves immune...
Date of source: Sunday, July 24, 2005
In January 2002, Bishop Marqus of Shubra al-Kheima, purchased a 1351-square-metre plot of land for the construction of a church and a building to house the social service activities the church planned to offer to some 400 families who lived in the vicinity. The land was officially registered in...
Date of source: Sunday, July 17, 2005
A recent letter from Watani reader Mr. Nabil Mahmoud Wali took me back to the Problems on Hold file. Under the title “Egypt’s maligned Copts,” Mr Wali wrote on a taboo issue—that of religious conversion in Egypt
Date of source: Sunday, July 10, 2005
Complaints against the Civil Register Authority keep coming in. Watani readers are still writing to us about mistakes in the new computerised identification papers issued by the Civil Register, and the subsequent defiant, arrogant, uncooperative attitude adopted by the civil register clerks who...
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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.