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Date of source: Saturday, November 16, 2002
Pope Shenouda issued a statement to the members of Cairo Lions Club that what the constitution says about the equality between Muslims and Christians is one thing and the actual fact of the matter is another. He added that Copts have the right to be represented fairly in the Parliament. Some papers...
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Mustafa Mashhour,
the general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, has been diagnosed as having a blood clot in the brain and is expected to
die. Brotherhood members refuse to answer questions concerning his successor. Observers recognize three candidates and
one of them is the official spokesman of...
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The report of the American
State Department on religious freedom in the world lists Egypt among the countries where religious freedom is
violated. The report claims that Egypt does not respect non-Islamic religions and pressures their followers. It does
not give them religious freedom to the...
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Akher Saa, al-
Arabi and al-Ahali approached Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christian clergymen, from Egypt and Palestine, and
asked them to comment on the crisis of the Church of the Nativity. They all criticized Sharon?s practices against the
birthplace of Jesus Christ and against the...
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The Israeli siege of
the Church of Nativity shows that Arab Christians stand alongside Muslims in the fight against Israel. The newly
founded Christian al-Mahd [al-Mahd = nativity, named after the Church of the Nativity] organization places martyrdom
operations on their priorities list. The...
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More than 10,000 Muslims and
Christians attended the ?National Conference to Support the Palestinians? that was held in the St. Mark Cathedral upon
the call of Pope Shenouda. The conference was an expression of Egyptians? objection to the Israeli practices against
the Palestinians. Pope Shenouda...
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Egypt?s new Muftī stressed that there will be coordination among the different
Islamic institutions to arrive at a unified Islamic opinion and to help people avoid confusion that results from
contradictory Fatāwá. He said that he is a son of the Azhar and so he will be keen on not issuing Fatāwá...
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The book Dianetics which was reported to preach a new religion, that
is Scientology, received great attention from the Egyptian press. Many papers scanned the contents of the book and
commented on them. All papers touched upon the issue connected between the new religion and attempts on the part...
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Some papers claimed that the Shaykh of the Azhar refused
to extend the period in office of Dr. Nasser Farid Wassel as a Muftī for Egypt and appointed instead of him Dr. Ahmad
El-Tayyeb because the former Muftī issued many Fatāwá that corticated his Fatāwá. Other papers shed light on the...
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President Mubarak has met with the delegation representing the three heavenly religions in the inter-
religious dialogue conference that was held in Alexandria. He warned against the provocative activities of Israel as
it is in the nature of such activities to lead to more blood shedding. At the...
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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.