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Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Minya Security department managed to find the four Malawi schoolgirls. The families of the girls excluded [the possibility that] the girls’ disappearance was a crime of any kind, and said that it was driven mainly by problems at school and within the families.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Security agencies managed to find the four girls from Malawi who disappeared early this month. Foreign radio [stations] told the story in an incorrect way. Egyptian emigrants in the US contacted the bishop of Malawi after hearing the news. The bishop explained to the callers it was only the same...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2001
Four Christian High School girls ran away from school and have not been found until now. Eyewitnesses confirmed that they got on a train heading to Minya. Investigations indicated that there was no suspicion of criminal action regarding their disappearance. The bishop of Minya and Malawi said that...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Rafique Iscander, the head of the American Coptic Union, sent a letter to President Bush. In this letter he made the events in southern Sudan, the crimes of the civil war in Lebanon and the individual incidents that took place in Egypt appear similar. He wrote that in return for the aid Egypt...
Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2001
"I believe the report of Dr. Yanney is very important. He wrote it in a balanced way and raised many issues that need discussion in Egypt" says Dr. Samir Marcos. But the issue of conversions is not really discussed because churches in Egypt are divided and "do not want to see reality."
Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2001
Revd. Dr. John Watson commented on the report of Dr. Rodolph Yanney on conversions of Christians to Islam [RNSAW, 2001, week 01, art. 4]. He believes that it is better for internal investigation of this topic to be conducted by the Copts in Egypt, but not by the hierarchy. The issue needs to focus...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
Dr. Rodolph Yanney, president of the Society of Coptic Church Studies and founder and editor of Coptic Church Review in 1980, gave the RNSAW permission to bring his articles in the Copts Digest and the Coptic Daily Digest, published in 1999, together in one report describing the factors leading to...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Editorial Board RNSAW:Drs. Cornelis Hulsman had been invited to give a lecture on his work for the RNSAW at a conference on "Media and Interreligious Dialogue" in Vienna, Austria on November 8 and 9. The conference had been organized by the International Press Institute in Vienna, the Department of...
Date of source: Monday, August 30, 1999
Atef Helmi referred in his article to Rick Joyner’s "The Harvest" as an example of Western Charismatic thinking. An outline and evaluation of Joyner’s book is given. Hulsman points to the danger of a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Many times claims of kidnap and rape are not correct but this story in the Egyptian Gazette proofs that women can be raped. The culprits were caught and one of them was sentenced to death.
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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.