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Date of source: Friday, November 22, 2002
Summary of the Ph.D. thesis of Revd. Dr. Wolfram Reiss about the Sunday School movement in the Coptic Orthodox Church with a focus on the role of Pope Shenouda III and Father Matta el-Meskeen and the place of the church in a Muslim society. Reiss´ study provides an excellent insight into the...
Date of source: Saturday, November 9, 2002
Many Christians believe God reveals Himself through visions to mankind. The Bible is full of this and the apostle Peter says: “And it shall come to pass in the last days… your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams” [Acts 2:17]. And thus Orthodox, Pentecostals and other...
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2000
Secretary General of the Arab League announced that the Arab League intends to propose a plan to church leaders in Egypt aiming at facing the allegations of Zionist Christianity. He stressed that those who adopt this extremist religious theory seek to achieve political gains that will cause...
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2002 to Friday, October 4, 2002
Excommunication is the capital punishment that can be handed down to a clergyman, if he committed an irrecoverable mistake. A priest said that there is no written ecclesiastical law for excommunication, which means that it is a punishment that is left to the judgment of the bishops.
Date of source: Monday, July 8, 2002
Pope Shenouda III announced that he had deposed a monk, a deacon and a number of consecrated women and stripped them of their ecclesiastical ranks because they formed a group that deviated from the teachings of Christianity. They consider the pope an unbeliever and claimed that they are the true...
Date of source: Saturday, May 4, 2002
Because of the criticism in the Egyptian press on Coptic migrants we continued our overview of contributions on the Copts Daily Digest (see for the first overview RNSAW, 2002, week 14A, art. 11). Many responses in the Digest are strongly polarizing.
Date of source: Friday, March 8, 2002
The article explains the beliefs and history of the Mormon Church, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. Christian clergymen refuted the beliefs of the Mormons and said that they have nothing to do with Christianity. There are about 30 foreign Mormons in Maadi district in Egypt. They asked to be members...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2002
Dr. Milad Hanna (77), a much respected Coptic thinker and politician in Egypt who was awarded the UNESCO Simon Bolivar prize for his efforts in intercultural dialogue, was severely attacked by some Coptic activists in the Copts Daily Digest after his visit with Dr. Kamal Abul-Magd to Washington DC...
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2002
Michael Mounir, representative of the Copts in America, published an article on the Internet. He mentioned that the government demolished a wall around a plot of land that was assigned for building a church in Al-Abour city. Mounir sent a fax to Bishop Marcos of Shoubra Al-Kheima to protest the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
The domination of the pope on the Millī Council and its candidates is the subject of criticism by the author of the article.
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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.