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The author writes on the program of the visit of Pope Sheouda III to Aswan, where he opened a new Coptic church and laid the foundation stone of the building of Aswan Coptic Bishopric.
The press review deals with the recent controversial ruling by the Administrative Judiciary Court allowing divorced Copts a chance to have a second marriage and discussing the Coptic Orthodox Church’s rejection of the court’s decision.
Father Youhannā Nasīf from Alexandria tackles the expansion of the number of Coptic schools in Egypt. He suggests building new Coptic schools to eliminate fanatical ideologies and to increase acceptance of ‘the other’.
Although many in the East and West have called for dialogue between civilizations and religions, there are still those, such as the Salafis and those who subscribe to the idea of a clash of civilizations, who reject ‘the other’.
The author discusses the attempt to involve the U.N. in the affairs of Egypt’s Christians and argues that Egyptians, both Muslims and Christians, should be the ones to resolve Egypt’s problems.
Dr. Sālim Ahmad Sālim, a Muslim professor of pediatrics at al-Minia University medicine school has submitted his resignation after the mistreatment of one of his Coptic students.
The author claims that that it is so hard nowadays to live in the Middle East as a Christian.
Father Shenouda Marqus rejects the Danish cartoons and expresses his understanding for the angry feelings of Muslims, but at the same time wonders why Muslims in Egypt do not show the same level of sanctity towards Christianity, which he feels is being humiliated everyday in Egypt.
‘Imād Samīr ‘Awad believes that the behavior of the Islamic thinker Zaghloul al-Najjār does not differ, in harming the feelings of Christians, from that of the Danish caricaturist who humiliated Islam by mocking its prophet.
Freedom of press is one the basic human rights in Europe, but at the same time it has to be used wisely in order not to provoke the sensitivity of other, says Tāriq Ramadān.

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