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Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2001
Next Monday the Personal Status Court will look at the lawsuit that aims to separate Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi from her husband. The lawyer who started the lawsuit accuses Sa’adawi of defaming religions and claims she has left Islam. In her opinion the lawsuit is not legal as the State Prosecution...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 6, 2001
Max Michael is an Egyptian Orthodox Christian who founded a religious association offering religious and family care services. Despite the work he is doing, people from the church classify him as an outlaw who left the church. Michael claims he is an Orthodox and that he has all respect for Pope...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Dr. John Watson, a consultant to the Archbishop of Canterbury on Coptic affairs, said that there are very few people, in the West, who know a lot about Islam. People in the West usually say that al-Islambuli murdered Sadat and that sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman is Islam. Dr. Watson said he taught...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 9, 2001
Egypt’s General Consul in the USA gave a reception in the Egyptian Consulate to welcome Pope Shenouda. The Pope pointed out the warm welcome that President Mubarak’s visit to the USA was met with, on the part of emigrant Copts. He stressed that the Copts of Egypt are all right and that they are...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 2, 2001
The Education Minister declared in the Shura Council that extremists controlled 90% of educational institutions in Egypt. He prevented 3,000 teachers from teaching, believing that they taught students extremist ideas. He said that security forces found long-term plans prepared by extremist...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Novelist Tharwat Abaza believes that Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s opinion that going on pilgrimage is paganism indicates a serious mistake and disbelief and that her ideas about inheritance and her claim to make man equal with woman is a major disaster. He said that his judgment of Al-Sa’adawi is based on...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2001
Al-Qashish village is a living example of the national unity between Muslims and Christians. Muslims there help Christians in restoring a church that was built in the days of Khedive Abbas Helmi. At every feast, the priest of the church distributes gifts and clothes to everyone, Muslims before...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
"Be Thou There" is a new book on the trip of the Holy Family through Egypt. It is an important contribution to the history of the Holy Family, and generally to the Christian heritage in Egypt. The three writers of the book and its editor are specialists in Christian archaeology, Egyptian religious...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 14, 2001
The head of the Egyptian Catholic church, Patriarch Istaphanos, was chosen as a Cardinal in the Papal Council of Vatican. Cardinal Istaphanos says that Egypt enjoys peace and the relationship between Muslims and Christians in Mubarak’s age is more than excellent.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 28, 2001
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman returned from Beni Suef and Minya, after visiting the Holy Family sites with a group of 35 foreigners who belong to the Church of [John] the Baptist, in Maadi.
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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.