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Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2005
The procedures taken to keep whoever converts to Islam inside the monasteries will have serious repercussions leading to the spread of secret Islam inside the Church. Certainly there will be secret contacts between the new converts and this will in turn create intra anti-Church groups and networks.
Date of source: Monday, March 14, 2005
Copt lodges complaint against Pope Shenouda
The personal status prosecution is considering a complaint lodged by a Christian woman against the Coptic Orthodox Church and its Representative Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, over a canon law pertaining to marriage. This law...
Date of source: Monday, March 14, 2005
I just want to ask the author why [Coptic] girls in specific, and not Coptic men, are subject to abduction? The stories we hear in Egypt, however, do not convince even small children. Apostasy [irtidād] is a result of bodily lust or some worldly purpose. It is not based on persuasion or belief in...
Date of source: Monday, March 14, 2005
In the new Egyptian city of 6th of October, Ahmad Ridā Ahmad Ibrāhīm, a Muslim, and Rāndā Barsoum Shukrī ‘Abd al-Nour, a Christian, fell in love and they finally decided to tie the knot. However, their marriage was just the beginning of a series of problems. Love-stricken Ahmad found himself...
Date of source: Monday, March 14, 2005
Claude Gibel, a French editor at the ‘Libération.fr,’ believed she would be entering an unknown world, a world of religion lessons, where members of the upper class seek peace of mind and meaning in life.
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2005
The North Cairo Court is now considering a dispute about a trade transaction viewed by many as strange because one of the parties to the legal dispute is Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark. Clergy are not supposed to conduct such translations.
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2005
US police reports have refuted the allegations by expatriate Coptic leaders on the horrid massacre of Husām Armānius, his wife and two daughters, foiling their [expatriate Coptic] attempts to turn a criminal case into a faith-related problem that could be used as a means of political pressure.
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2005
The Brotherhood’s file is not clean from disgraceful financial and sexual transgressions in the Egyptian Bar Association and even elsewhere. The group has an insatiable lust for power and interference in everything going on inside the Association.
Date of source: Monday, February 14, 2005
In her weekly article in al-Usbou‘, Dr. Karīmān Hamza called Egyptian Copts “the happiest minority in the world.” A week later, Mr. Nabīl cUmar wrote about the same subject in Sawt al-Umma. After I had read these two articles I could not restrain myself from feeling angry not because I am...
Date of source: Monday, February 14, 2005
Muna Makram ‘Ubayid, the deputy leader of al-Ghad [Tomorrow] Party, has been a fountainhead of power for leader Ayman Nour, a former member of parliament who is currently imprisoned on charges of forging official documents for his newly-founded party. She has also, however, been his Achilles’ heel...
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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.