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Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2001
Pope Shenouda acknowledged marriage and baptism taking place according the Greek Orthodox church. On behalf of the Egyptian Holy Council, the Pope signed an agreement in this respect with the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox denomination in Alexandria.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2001
The Orthodox Coptic patriarchy is interrogating archpriest Marcos Aziz of the Hanging Church for opposing the pope’s candidate list in the last Maglis el-Milli elections.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2001
The writer believes that human rights, part of which is religious freedom, cannot be achieved by investigating or writing reports. Human rights does not mean distributing humanitarian aid. She wonders why, if the US Commission on International Religious Freedom is concerned with the conditions of...
Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2001
The USA Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a statement concerning its visit to Egypt. The information available on its Internet site said that the report on the commission’s visit to Egypt was being prepared and that the commission asked President Bush to raise the issue of Coptic...
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
Some may not mind foreign intervention in Egyptian affairs when matters are related to the issue of human rights. This is a very short sighted opinion. Despite our disagreement with the government concerning many things, we differentiate between opposition that is working to better the situation...
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published the text of a letter sent by rabbi David Sebastian to Clinton before one of Mubarak’s visits to the USA. In this letter he asked Clinton to raise the issue of the violation of Coptic religious freedom in Egypt. Mubarak’s last visit to the USA was also...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2001
Despite the fact that emigrant Copts count for a small percentage, they used the media as a weapon and started publishing paid advertisements about their inaccurate claims concerning the persecution of Copts. The pamphlets they distribute only put the Copts of Egypt in critical situations.
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
A suspicious pamphlet from an unknown source asked for direct American intervention in Egypt’s affairs and for the American Marine forces to be stationed in Egypt to defend [American] foreign affairs here. It considered Copts as American subjects not as Egyptian citizens. It mentioned that churches...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Most of the Coptic organizations abroad do not hide their readiness to cooperate with Israel to reach their targets. For them Israel is like any western country they resort to. The members of Californian Coptic Organization reject completely the idea of establishing a Coptic state in Upper Egypt....
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Rafique Iscander, the head of the American Coptic Union, sent a letter to President Bush. In this letter he made the events in southern Sudan, the crimes of the civil war in Lebanon and the individual incidents that took place in Egypt appear similar. He wrote that in return for the aid Egypt...
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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.