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Date of source: Tuesday, July 29, 1997
Subtitle:What is going on within the church?The real story about the excommunicated Monk
Danial El-Baramousi, and Monk AghathonWhy didn’t the excommunicated fathers speak about the real
reasons
for their excommunication?El-Watani newspaper examines the reasons for the
excommunication of...
Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 1997
Father Athanasios Asak Henen; pastor of the Orthodox
church in Greece answers an article
of Mr. Fahmy Huweidy in el-Ahram in which he asked for the voice of the
church against the American
Copts’ claims that Copts in Egypt are subjected to persecution. The priest writes that
social problems,...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 29, 1997
Abdel Haliem
Mansi discusses the
treatment of non-Muslims in Muslim countries, examining Islam’s respect of the people of
the book, Jews, Christians
and Muslims. He also presents the example of the way that Nagaashi, the king of
Habshaa, dealt with Muslims
seeking refuge in his kingdom.
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 1997
Ibrahim Sabri writes in Watani, July 20 1997 that ancient pharaonic
and Coptic art exposed at an
exhibition in Switzerland was not taken out of Egypt in the 17th and 18th centuries,
but was stolen at the
beginning of the 20th century. The most important artefacts are described.
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 1997
Yousef Sidhom, editor-in-chief of Watani, responds to an article of Islamist author Fahmy Huweidy in Al-Ahram newspaper demanding that the Coptic church denounce all extremist movements who tarnish the image of Egypt on the international stage by focusing on negative aspects of Egypt, including...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 2, 1997
The bishop responded
to an article written in
Al-Akhbar of June 29, 1997, written by Kamal Zakher Musa, who suggested that
the church in Egypt was
involved in deceit, and questioned the consecration and age of new bishops. Bishop
Musa explains that believers
cannot be left without bishops,...
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 1997
The repair of a church toilet at the Monastery of the Syrian prompted a mob to destroy the entire building
while the monk overseeing the work was at the police station. Watani complains that the official
press,
al-Ahram and al-Akhbar, present the event as if it was a minor incident, and that...
Date of source: Sunday, June 15, 1997
The editor
describes the difference between the Egyptian constitution
which calls for equality between Muslims and
Christians and the experience of an employee of the Sheraton-Hotel in
Cairo who was asked to convert to
Islam. The article is based on information provided by the law-office of...
Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2006
The
author reviews the painstaking efforts of Dr. ‘Azīz Suryāl
‘Attīyah to
issue a Coptic encyclopedia as a means to revive the Coptic heritage, history and
traditions. He calls for the
Arabic translation of the English-language encyclopedia that was released by
the McMillan Publishers Ltd in...
Date of source: Sunday, August 20, 2006
Bāsimah William writes about the celebrations of the feast of the Virgin Mary at Dayr al-Azrā’ in Jabal Assiut, which does not attract only Christians, but also Muslims and people from all over the world.
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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.