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Date of source: Thursday, November 11, 2004 to Sunday, November 14, 2004
How does one write a polemic that’s non-polemical, a manifesto that’s not manifestly so? With Christians Observed, the Revd. Dr John Watson, a priest in the Church of England and frequent contributor to Watani, has managed to answer the question.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Father Basilius of the Monastery of Makarius responds to the articles of Dr. John Watson [week21] and Amīr Mīlād [week 22] about the Wādī al-Rayyān, providing more details, showing the hierarchical structure of the church that does not accept individual monks going their own way.
Date of source: Saturday, May 28, 2005
Interview with Amīr Mīlād, a Christian desert guide, about the monks in the Wādī al-Rayyān. Amīr Mīlād adds information to the article of Dr. John Watson in AWR, 2005, week 20.
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2002
The year report of 2001 including an overview of the special reports written for the RNSAW. The year 2001 was marked by a strong increase in the number of special reports, providing readers with information that is not available elsewhere.
Date of source: Sunday, May 15, 2005
In the autumn of 1981 Christian students in London were praying for Egypt. They remembered the dramatic assassination by Muslim extremists of Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt. There were daily prayers concerning the house arrest of the Coptic Christian Patriarch of Egypt
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2005
In the wake of Wafā’ Costantine, Muhammad al-Bāz discusses the reasons why Christian girls convert to Islam. Al-Bāz mentions divorce in Christianity as one of the main factors behind the phenomenon.
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
Now Benedicta Ward SLG and Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, have joined (or, better, rejoined) the caravan out to the desert--not, fortunately, as tourists but as seekers and translators. Dr. Rowan Williams’ Silence and Honey Cakes illustrates the wisdom Coptic monastic life. Sister...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 12, 2001
The state considered that the problems of the Copts were a source of headaches, preferably to be avoided. Some people claim that the state relaxed after Pope Shenouda was returned to his seat by a new appointment decree. They considered the pope, to be the representative of the Copts in all...
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2001 to Friday, August 24, 2001
The monastery of St. Onaura, located on an island outside Cannes, started a business producing many food products. Now it has a million francs income per year. Monk Mark Henry of the Notre Dame and Abigail monastery said that in this way monks would be secure about their future.
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2001
The article gives an overview of the patriotic role Copts played throughout the history of Egypt. It also speaks about Christianity in Egypt and how it stood against atheist movements and laid the foundations of true Christianity for the Christian world.
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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.