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Date of source: Friday, April 18, 2008
A wave of panic swept through the village of Mahallah Mālik in Dusūq after the residents discovered that most of their marriage contracts are illegal.
Date of source: Friday, April 18, 2008
Muslim scholars warn against the disastrous danger of water over-consumption after official statistics revealed that Egyptians squander 7 billion Egyptian pounds annually due to water over-consumption.
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Dr. Zaynab Radwān, the deputy speaker of the Egyptian People’s Assembly’s controversial argument about women issues under Sharī‘ah is still creating heated discussions in the lay and religious milieus in Egypt. The following lines shed light on the different arguments.
Date of source: Saturday, March 29, 2008
The third laymen conference was supposed to be held at the end of March, 2008. However, it was postponed to an unspecified date. Organizers of the conference attributed the delay to the diversity of conferences that were held recently on the same subject; citizenship rights, and to the busy...
Date of source: Monday, March 24, 2008
While clergymen of the Coptic Orthodox Church reject Coptic nominations in the local council elections on the lists of the Muslim Brotherhood, a leader from the group asserts that accepting Coptic nominees on the Brotherhood’s lists is a sign of the group’s democratic nature and a reflection of its...
Date of source: Sunday, March 30, 2008
Father Christian Van Nispen is a Jesuit who has lived in Egypt since 1962. He is a specialist in Islamic studies and plays a leading role in interreligious dialogue in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, March 28, 2008
Pope Shenouda faced Copts’ protests against the relocation of Bishop Makārius, the assistant bishop of al-Minyā.
Date of source: Saturday, March 29, 2008
The U.S. Copts’ Association has accused USAID of discriminating against Copts, after a proposal by the association in Egypt to partially finance two projects was rejected. USAID cited three reasons why it rejected the projects and the U.S Copts’ Association asserted that the rejection was mainly...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Councilor Labīb discusses the financial authority of bishops. Church laws institute that a bishop has the authority to supervise and manage church funds in accordance with church laws and honest principles. He does not have the right to possess or use church funds or assets for his own benefit.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The author believes that the church is playing an improper role by replacing the state in dealing with Coptic affairs.
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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.