Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2007
Dr. Maḥmūd Ḥamdī Zaqzūq argues that inter-religious dialogue will not be successful without first solving the issue of the possession of absolute truth, as dialogue cannot succeed if the participants do not accept and have a mutual respect for one another.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
A number of demonstrators staged a sit-in at an Evangelical church in the Ṭālibīyah suburb in Giza over what they described as the improper deeds of the church pastor, Reverend Midḥat Rif‘at ‘Ajbān.
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2007
The author criticizes the Coptic Orthodox Church for issuing a remarriage license to the Coptic actress Hālah Ṣidqī, due to her good relations with leaders of the church, while leaving the cases of 15,000 people who have long been applying for this license unresolved.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Pope Shenouda III issued a document urging clergymen to get an appropriate efficient education that enables them to guide people and save them from theological and doctrinal deviations.
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2007
Laymen believe that the Coptic Orthodox Church does not have real laws and relies on legal texts scattered in the fathers’ books and the researches that were written in different eras. A number of their proposed reforms are discussed in this article.
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2007
Cairo churches offer financial and in-kind aid to the refugees of Darfur. The following lines shed light on the refugees’ lives in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2007
Ṭāriq al-Shāmī argues that assigning Coptic women to influential governmental posts as a concession to Copts and women is a losing cause. In his view, equality is the best solution and a goal that can be realized educationally through the school curricula.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Farīdah Muḥammad reports on the statements of People’s Assembly member Hamdayn al-Sabāhī, editor in-chief of the newspaper al-Karāmah, in which he criticized al-Miṣrī al-Yawm and accused it of igniting sectarian tension.
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2007
A video on the difficulties faced by mixed love relationships sparks protests amongst conservative Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2007 to Friday, August 24, 2007
This article shows the opinions of a number of leading journalists regarding the state-owned press and the calls to privatize it.