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In early December 2004, a small number of Copts from the northern Egyptian governorate of al-Beheira gathered at 7.00 p.m. outside the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-Abbassiya to call on Pope Shenouda III to bring them back the allegedly kidnapped wife of Father Youssef Moawad.
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Recently, a lawsuit has been filed by Coptic priests and lawyers against Baheb al-Sima on the grounds that the film is demeaning to the Orthodox Christian faith. Justice Naguib Gebrail, former president of the Personal Status Court, said that a group of Egyptian businessmen and intellectuals would...
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Magdy Khalil, a Coptic writer in the US, wrote a series of three articles in Watani
newspaper under a general title "A Returnee from Cairo." In this series, he comments on the conditions of Copts in
Egypt. al-Arabi, mouthpiece of the Nasserist Party, and Islamic independent Aqidati highly...
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Two events led Al-Usboa, Al-Arabi and Watani to comment on the issue of democracy and the American intervention in the domestic affairs of Egypt. These events are the decision of the US Senate to allocate $2 million, cut from the American aid to Egypt, to Saad Eddin Ibrahim and his Ibn Khaldoun...
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The Egyptian Court of Cassation accepted the second appeal Saad Eddin Ibrahim lodged against the seven-year imprisonment sentence handed down to him. The Cassation Court cancelled the ruling and set January 7 for a third and final trial of Ibrahim. Ibrahim was released after the court?s session.
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Many articles
focussed on the opinions of religious and political leaders concerning the crisis around the Church of the Nativity.
They compared responses from different churches; Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic.
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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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All Copts and church leaders in Egypt and all over the world condemned Sharon?s practices against the
Palestinians and the fact that the Israeli forces attacked the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem and prevented
worshipping in it for the first time in history. They asked different countries all...
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[Khul‘‘ is wife?s request for divorce in return for the dowry and gifts she had received from
him].
Pope Shenouda expressed his satisfaction at the fact that the court rejected the khula? request of a
Coptic wife. He said that the decision was based on the teachings of Christianity and reflected...
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[Khul‘‘ is wife?s request for
divorce in return for the dowry and gifts she had received from him].
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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.