Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
Nabīl Salamah advocates for the whole world to cooperate in
re-
reading history towards an objective point of view - towards strengthening values of peace, justice and
love. These
are the values common to both religions: Islam and Christianity.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Committee of al-Azhar for Dialogue with Monotheistic Religions was dissolved due to estimated
shortages of the
committee in facing the recent repeated offenses against Islam. A new committee was
formed.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Angry reactions to Pope
Benedict’s remarks on Islam and the Prophet
Muhammad continued for a second week. Some Muslim figures,
including Iranian President Ahmadinejad and
Malaysian Prime Minister ‘Abd Allāh Ahmad
Badawī, have accepted the pope’s regret at the
furious reactions to his remarks...
Date of source: Friday, September 22, 2006
The review considers a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the
ambassadors of Muslim
and Arab nations to the Holy See, in which the pontiff affirmed his respect for all
religions, particularly
Islam, and called for continuing the Muslim-Christian dialogue. He described this as of
vital...
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
The
article discusses a conference of Muslim-Christian dialogue between the Azhar’s Islamic
Research Academy and
the Episcopal Church in which the participants stressed the importance of cooperation for the
good of both
Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
The article
deals with intercultural dialogue held at
the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) in
which all participants agreed on the necessity
of changing religious discourse to strengthen the values of
equality and coexistence.
Date of source: Monday, September 4, 2006
A Muslim-Christian conference has been held to face, what the author describes as, the chaos of religious freedom of expression.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 5, 2006
In a Muslim-Christian dialogue meeting, the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Tantāwī, affirmed that jihād in Islam is exclusively for self-defense and not meant for attacking the innocent. He stressed the need to rectify this Western misconception about Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, October 7, 2006
Arab-West Report Editor in-Chief, Cornelis Hulsman, asked Archbishop Fitzgerald, the Catholic nuntius in Egypt, about the statements of Pope Benedict on Islām. Archbishop Fitzgerald speaks Arabic, knows the Islamic world well and plays Qur’ān important role in Muslim-Christian dialogue. The...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Elizabeth Yell reviews an article, given to AWR by Dr. ‘Alī al- Simmām, head of the Committee of Dialogue and Islamic Relations in the Higher Council for Islamic Affairs, which he found to be highly significant on the changing attitude of the Vatican towards Christians in the Middle East.