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Date of source: Saturday, March 23, 2002 to Friday, March 29, 2002
The Egyptian Episcopal Church declared its independence from the Community Council [Maglis el-Milli] of Egyptian Evangelical Churches. The declaration caused a struggle between the presidents of the two churches – which led to the intervention of several religious and official authorities in an...
Date of source: Saturday, March 23, 2002 to Friday, March 29, 2002
Pope Shenouda´s approval of applying khula´ on Copts caused frenzied reactions and much controversy. Apart from khula´, there are many similarities between Islam and Christianity regarding issues of personal status. The article touches upon these similarities, such as, the law...
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002 to Friday, March 22, 2002
The inclusion of some chapters on Islam in the educational program of schools in California caused anger among parents. They were dismayed because they saw that teaching their children about Islam contradicts all what they raised their children upon. They disapproved of it because they disagree...
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002 to Friday, March 22, 2002
The article tells the story of Solomon´s Temple and how it was built. The author believes that there is not a single prophecy concerning rebuilding the Temple in the Torah.
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002 to Friday, March 22, 2002
The idea of politicizing children´s toys and attaching religious meanings to them is one of the ideas that are in use and widespread on the global level. Iran produced the Sarah doll as a solution to stop the circulation of the Barbie doll, which is seen as a kind of cultural invasion. Now the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002 to Friday, March 22, 2002
In this article, Egypt´s new Mufti speaks about the duties of Dar El-Ifta´ and the issues on which it can and cannot give fatwas. He said that it is important for specialists beside religious scholars to be consulted on issues such as genetic engineering, banking and medicine. This makes the fatwas...
Date of source: Saturday, March 2, 2002 to Friday, March 8, 2002
Muslim and Christian clergymen stress that the activity of collecting donations for building mosques and churches offends the creed and deforms its sacredness, especially because some of the people who collect such donations took up this activity as their job to make money without being questioned...
Date of source: Saturday, February 16, 2002 to Friday, February 22, 2002
A Palestinian tried to promote the beliefs of the scientific church in Egypt through promoting the book of “Dianetics” by Ron Hubbard, who founded this new church half a century ago. Some Egyptians took up this new creed, although it was banned in Germany and France
Date of source: Saturday, February 16, 2002 to Friday, February 22, 2002
The article sheds light on how the Jezira TV and some emigrant Copts, such as, Michael Mounir tried to exploit the incidents of Beni Walmis to give the impression that Egypt suffers from sectarian strife. The author described both the Jezira TV and Mounir and his group as provokers.
Date of source: Saturday, February 16, 2002 to Friday, February 22, 2002
A Saudi judge called for the hadd punishment* of a Tunisian singer because she allegedly compared herself to the Prophet. Some Arab countries demanded the execution of another singer as it was said that she named her dog after one of the prophets. A third singer was imprisoned as he was charged...
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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.