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Date of source: Saturday, June 22, 2002 to Friday, June 28, 2002
The young talented actor Ahmad Al-Fishawi was reported to have given up acting, grown his beard and become a student of the preacher Amr Khaled or the preacher of resigned artists. Al-Fishawi said that if he had found something in Khaled´s lectures claiming that acting is haram [religiously...
Date of source: Saturday, June 22, 2002 to Friday, June 28, 2002
Rose El-Youssef created a special file on extremism and terrorism. The file discusses cassette tapes that degrade women in Egyptian society, the fact that some lawyers looking for fame collaborate with extremists, that some scholars oppose scholarly development and that terrorists have turned to...
Date of source: Saturday, May 11, 2002 to Friday, May 17, 2002
The sexual misconduct of some Catholic priests brought to the surface the issue of marriage and celibacy in Christianity. St. Paul advocated celibacy and virginity because of his belief in the coming of Jesus Christ, which needs man to be free from this world. It was also believed that sex keeps...
Date of source: Monday, May 13, 2002
When a well-known da´iya [preacher] and a repented artist meet, this means that they are doing business. There must be an agreement between them to present satellite programs or record a tape containing some preaching by the da´iya, as a way of making money.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 30, 2002
The Catholic Church in America accepted the resignation of 180 priests from among 200 involved in sexual misconduct. The Vatican Pope held a private session with the representatives of the leaders of the different Catholic Churches in which he was shown the results of the investigations that...
Date of source: Sunday, April 28, 2002
A referendum showed that 70% of the American Catholics prefer to cancel any restrictions to priests getting married, while 22% of them reject the marriage of Catholic priests. On the other hand, Pope John Paul II assured his rejection of the marriage of Catholic priests.
Date of source: Monday, April 29, 2002
The Vatican pope held emergency meetings to discuss the issue of the sexual misconduct of some priests of the Catholic Church and paid compensations to the harmed people. The Vatican was, however, at the same time negligent toward the crisis of the Church of the Nativity and did not announce that...
Date of source: Saturday, April 27, 2002 to Friday, May 3, 2002
Many Muslim scholars explained that, according to the Shari´a, it is not right to use mosques for demonstrations. Mosques are places for worship and preaching, holy places that should not be a place for shouting and gathering. Expressing anger and dissatisfaction could be done through collecting...
Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2002 to Friday, April 26, 2002
In Britain, Ireland and America, courts examine hundreds of cases in which Catholic priests are accused of sexual misconduct. Many of those priests were stopped from serving in the Catholic Church or given imprisonment sentences. Although the Vatican pope confessed the sexual misconduct of some...
Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2002
Dr. Muhammad Mugahed and Sheikh Khalid El-Gindi said that whoever does not believe in Muhammad as a prophet is a kafar [unbeliever], whether he is a polytheist, Jew or Christian. The author wonders what the reaction of a Christian youth who was thinking about committing a martyrdom operation in...
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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.