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Date of source: Sunday, March 14, 2004
Pope Shenouda III called for the necessity of reinterpreting some of the verses of the Qur’an and the Holy Bible that deal with procreation. He said that he had raised the awareness of preachers and priests that the number of children one breeds is not the gist of the matter. Dr. Muhammad Hamdi...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
The prominent preacher’s wife confirmed that everything that had been said about him is true and that the monaqaba woman [the veil includes coverage of the face] was not making false claims. So his wife prevented him from going outside the house at all, and he could not even go to the mosque to...
28. For the first time…The Orthodox Church opens a dialogue with an American Protestant denomination
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
The Coptic Church announced its new initiative to support dialogue among the three Christian denominations: Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant. Pope Shenouda held a special celebration for one of the biggest Protestant institutions working in Egypt, Dar Al-Kitab Al-Moqaddas [Bible Society]. This...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 17, 2004
The Muslim Brotherhood declared their initiative during a press conference last week. Public opinion linked the Muslim Brotherhood initiative to the Greater Middle East initiative, drafted by the United States. Some people think that the initiative was issued at this particular time to send a...
Date of source: Sunday, March 21, 2004
The Supreme State Security Court in Cairo is due to hear the case of the Islamic Liberation Party [Hizb al-Tahrir] on the 25th of this month. Three British citizens are among the suspects in this case. The Liberation Party resumed its activities after the end of fundamentalist activities due to two...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 23, 2004
The Engineers’ Syndicate has been under judicial supervision for ten years now.
Six hundred engineers, of whom 80 percent are affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood and their representatives, went to the syndicate [to hold their conference] only to find that its doors were closed. Their attempts to...
Date of source: Friday, March 19, 2004
In an interview with his Eminence Dr. Muhammad Al-Mokhtar Muhammad Al-Mahdy, Director General of Shariya [Shari’a-based] NGOs, and professor in Al-Azhar University, talked about many issues of concern to Muslims. Among these issue are the crisis of the Islamic world, the concept of jihad , the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
The Administrative Court scheduled May 4 to start looking into a complaint raised by lawyer Nabih Al-Wahsh, requesting stripping the sheikh of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, of his membership in the Islamic Research Institute, as a step towards suspending him. Al-Wahsh mentioned his...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Muhammad Hassan, a Muslim preacher, said in one of his audio tapes that singing is like adultery. He works on trying to recruit the largest number of youths to join Gama’at Ansar Al Sunna Al Muhamadiya [The Champions of Mohammedan Sunna]. He transforms them into followers who obey him and follow...
Date of source: Monday, March 22, 2004
The article consists of two parts, the first part is a response Al-Usbua received from Dr. Gebril concerning what was published last issue under the title “Serious statements by the Ibn Khaldoun Center.” The second part is Al-Usbua’s opinion on the statements of Gebril.
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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.