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Date of source: Tuesday, February 13, 2001
There are great differences among Christian denominations concerning the Virgin Mary. For Catholics she is God’s mother, the intercessor for sins, mother of mercy and mother of the Christian church in the world. The Orthodox Church raises her above angels and saints. Protestants believe only in the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
The article is the text of a message Bishop Gregorios sent to the late sheikh Sha’arawi about the latter’s comments on Christian beliefs about the nature of Jesus Christ. The author believes that publishing this sensitive message is a way of bringing Christians and Muslims closer together.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
Pope Shenouda’s list of Copts who are not allowed to marry contains Popes, archbishops, bishops, widower priests, widows of priests and men who leave monastic life during their trial period. It also prevents marriage to the sister of a deceased wife or to the brother of a deceased husband and...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2001
The Coptic Orthodox church believes in seven secrets. Four of which are called the secrets of salvation. Each Christian should perform them. These four secrets are the secret of Baptism, the secret of the Holy Chrism, the secret of the Holy Communion and the secret of confession. The other three...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 5, 2000
Subtitles:
? Does God accept repentance through the mobile phone?
? Emigrant Copts confess their sins to Pope Shenouda over international telephone lines.
? There are fears that the Coptic telephone line will be exploited for the benefit of the excommunicated.
After putting into action the idea of...
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2000 to Saturday, April 15, 2000
What is the reason of the dialogue between religions, and how should it be? This question was raised after a debate between Jewish, Christian and Islamic delegations in the conference on ’Dialogue between religions’ in Jakarta, February 2000, where the conversation turned into an Apologetic...
26. The difference concerning the nature of Jesus Christ between the Churches of Rome and Alexandria
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
This article gives some of the historical background to the disagreement between the churches covering the Council of Chalcedon, and then the Council of Ephesus in 428 AD when the Patriarch of Constantinople stated that Mary was not holy and that she was only the mother of Jesus, not more...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 20, 1999
There is a book about the torture of hell and the comfort of paradise distributed in the Orthodox Churches. The book describes the journey of its author to hell and heaven. The book aims at attracting the people towards goodness and dissuading them from the evil things.
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 1999
A new study has emerged written by the Catholic researcher Rif’at Saber, the study is titled ’The Biblical constitution in the political, economic and social system’ and is about the Christian ruling system. The author of this article compares the points of this study with the agenda of the Muslim...
Date of source: Friday, January 8, 1999
Pope Shenouda wants to see the boycotts on Iraq and Libya are lifted. He believes the Israeli conflict with the Arabs is a conflict of greed. He also said the problem of the Coptic endowments is close to a final solution, thanks to the government.
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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.