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Date of source: Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Eliana Mallouk is Lebanese and works at the Lebanon office of DanMission, a Christian Danish faith-based organisation working for almost 200 years in the Middle East and North Africa, and also in other regions including Asia and Europe. Our main focus is on dialogue, peace building and also on...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Palestine is considered to be the cradle of Christianity, the birthplace of Jesus, and home to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the majority of Christian antiquities.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2024
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Sheikh Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, condemned the terrorist attack that resulted in the killing of 3 monks through the targeting of the Monastery of Saint Mark the Apostle and Saint Bishop Samuel of the Coptic Orthodox Church in South Africa.
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2024
Al-Azhar’s booth at the 55th edition of the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) is offering visitors the book ‘Children Asking the Imām,’ which contains answers for 38 questions by children as part of the publications of the Nūr book series.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2023
As controversy renewed with the beginning of a new Gregorian calendar year, al-Azhar and Dār al-Iftāʾ issued fatwās related to the greeting of non-Muslims over their holidays. Some pages re-published a video for Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, urging Muslims to congratulate non-Muslims...
Date of source: Saturday, December 30, 2023
Religious institutions in Egypt rejected “seasonal unofficial fatwās” prohibiting congratulating Christians for Christmas, adding that whoever promotes these opinions is considered to be a hardliner who has nothing to do with Islam. Al-Azhar said in a statement that people who deem congratulating...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Dr. Mamdūḥ Ghurāb, Governor of Sharqia, confirmed that the Egyptian Family House [Bayt al-ʿĀʾila] aims to restore the highest of Islamic and Christian values and their common denominators to preserve the Egyptian identity.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
The summary or introduction to Dr. Ḥassan Muḥammad Wajīh’s text dating to 2005 was written by Cornelis Hulsman. We translated this article into English which was edited by Dr. Ḥassan Wajīh.
Between June 6 and 13 a group of students of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Aachen University, Germany,...
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 2021
Al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ broadcasted a live video entitled “Religion is for God and Chanting is for Everyone” that shows a young Coptic boy chanting a poem praising Prophet Muḥammad called “Qamarun”. He said that the goal is to spread tolerance among all.
Date of source: Monday, November 15, 2021
On Monday, Major General ʿIṣām Saʿad, Governor of Asyūṭ, met with Archbishop Nicolas Henry, the Vatican’s Ambassador to Egypt and representative of His Holiness Pope Francis. Archbishop Nicolas Henry visited some churches in various districts of the governorate, and met with Muslim and Christian...
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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.