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Date of source: Monday, October 30, 2000
The annual feast of the Holy Virgin in Deir Rafat in the Palestinian territories usually draws 3000 to 4000 pilgrims. However, this year the number was not more than 300-400 people only, due to the actual situation, especially because all the Christian Palestinians from the Palestinian territories...
Date of source: Saturday, October 28, 2000
Father Abusahlia criticized the Jerusalem Post for its article about "Pat Boone coming on Christian solidarity visit" (JP 27 October 2000). This article was meant to depict the solidarity of millions and millions of Christians world-wide toward Israel. Abusahlia writes there are "scores of letters...
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2000
Pax Christi, the international Catholic peace movement, has been monitoring closely the developments in the Middle East. This year, the Arab Education Institute in Bethlehem became an Affiliated Organization with the movement. Pax Christi has been organizing several fact finding missions and...
Date of source: Saturday, October 28, 2000
On October 25, the Jerusalem Post published an article about hundreds of Palestinian Christians fleeing the Palestinian territories. An Israeli spokesman referred in this regard to a radical sermon of Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya. This article, like the sermon of the Palestinian preacher,...
Date of source: Friday, September 15, 2000
A leading conservative contender to succeed the Pope yesterday triggered an explosive row over immigration by giving warning that "Christian Europe" was in danger of being overwhelmed by a "Muslim invasion" and by urging the Italian Government to allow only Roman Catholic immigrants to enter the...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 26, 2000
The Vatican issued a charter that belittles the non-Roman Catholic Christian denominations [Orthodoxy and Protestantism] and other religions, especially Islam. This matter aroused dissatisfaction amongst Protestants and Muslims. Moreover, the statement of the cardinal, who is the strongest...
Date of source: Sunday, September 24, 2000
The Evangelical church is again accused of giving the hymns it distributes on video tapes a western appearance. This includes the music, the way it is sung and the use of video clips which are not in accordance with the spiritual dimension of the hymns. The article points out the opinions of the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 31, 2000
Bishop Egidio Sampieri has unexpectedly passed away on Monday August 28. The bishop died of a heart attack and is mourned by Catholics in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2000 to Saturday, April 29, 2000
In his recent seminar about the "situation in Jerusalem", Bishop Lotfi Laham, the deputy Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem", explained the details of the Jewish practices in order to pressure Arabs [Christians and Moslems] to leave the city.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 18, 2000
Archbishop Lotfy Liham, the general deputy patriarch for the Greek Catholics in Jerusalem confirmed that Muslims and Christians are suffering a lot in the Holy city. The blockade that is imposed upon the city makes the city isolated from the rest of the country. It is bad enough that Palestinians...
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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.