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Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
Following are the details for the story of the Holy Virgin’s church, awaited so eagerly by some 750 families – about 3500 individuals in the old and new towns of Burg al – Arab [Burj al-cArab] and some 40 villages in the vicinity. The projected church was effectively dropped after 16 years of...
Date of source: Saturday, January 29, 2005
“The Church of Arabs” or “the Church of Islam” is a new expression that may shock those who hear it for the first time. Patriarch Grigorious III explained this expression stating that the Arab church is the church that belongs to the Arab community and it is also the church of Islam. It is the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2005
Wearing a niqāb has become a haunting issue that rises every now and then; women insist on wearing it and disrespecting security aspects and customs of the society.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 4, 2005
The remains of Mark the Apostle remained in the hands of Egyptian Christians since his martyrdom in his church in Bolka [Alexandria] in 68 AD. The body remained there during the Byzantine rule. During the period of Pope Kyrillos VI, Pope Paul VI agreed to Pope Kyrillos’s demand to return the body...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
The Supreme Administrative Court overturned the appeal of the Minister of Culture against an earlier verdict issued by the Alexandria Administrative Court which ordered the cancellation of the celebration of the mulid of Abu Hasera in Damanhour. It also decided that the shrine of Rabbi Abu Hasera...
Date of source: Monday, December 3, 2001
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Brotherhood’s leaders affirmed that the group was calling for dialogue and not for confrontation. He called the government to dialogue and cooperation in order to face the challenges of the biased...
Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2001
Muslims and Christian mulids are celebrated in a similar way and are an expression of their happiness. Muslims are affected by the Christian celebrations and the celebrations of both of them carry Pharaonic features. All Egyptians celebrate the mulids of Sayeda Zeinab [Muslim], Al-Hussein [Muslim...
Date of source: Thursday, November 15, 2001
Associated sources in London declared that the Israeli intelligence service Mossad passed around the news about Damascus handing over Refa’i Ahmed Taha, the military leader of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, to Cairo. The leader of the Ansar Al-Shari’a organization in London said that the negotiations...
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
The Administrative Judiciary Court of Alexandria cancelled the celebration of the mulid of the Jewish rabbi Abu Hasera and annulled a decree from the Minister of Culture, which considered the tomb of Abu Hasera to be one of the Egyptian Coptic and Islamic monuments. It also refused to allow the...
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2001
Pope Shenouda emphasized his refusal to announce the names of expelled religious men which has been requested several times recently by educated Copts. He said that the internal punishment they received was enough.
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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.