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Date of source: Tuesday, December 12, 2000
The Christian conception of Ramadan proves the existence of the spirit of brotherhood between Muslims and Christians. A member in the executive committee of the Labor Party believes that if the religious aspect is confined to Muslims, the social and cultural aspects is for all Egyptians, Muslims...
Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2000
Metropolitan Athanasius of Beni Suef passed away, 77 years old, on November 16 after several years of ill health. The author writes about some of his personal experiences with the bishop who was a man striving for Christian unity and dialogue with Muslims.
Date of source: Monday, October 23, 2000
Hulsman called some Christians in Samalut and learned from them about the problems around renovating a church. He also describes the difficulties with church renovation in Egypt in general which is not so much a matter of obtaining a permit or not but depends a lot on local bureaucrats and...
Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2000
In this article, the writer discusses the problem of getting restoration licenses for churches and how the presidential decisions concerning this matter are not put into action. He gives the case of the church of the Archangel Michael, in Assiut, as an example, that clearly displays the problem he...
Date of source: Sunday, July 23, 2000
There is an unjustifiable shortfall in the amount of questioning of our administrations concerning what is happening. We stand confused as to whether this can be explained by authorities ignoring the issue in its entirety or is it because it is considered to be a direct challenge to those...
Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2000
The file of the churches problems refuses to be closed. Whenever we think that the problems are over, we find there are more problems, in an endless stream of cases. If a presidential decree issued last December has already canceled the necessity to present church repair requests to the governors...
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2000
In this article, Mr. Sidhom deals with the proposals presented by some Copts in Egypt
for the purpose of building new churches in the cities of the governorates of south and north Sinai, and the way these proposals have been neglected.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000
Christians dwelling in the new cities are suffering in terms of meeting their spiritual needs. No churches are built there. The thought of purchasing a land to build a church, will cost them to meet the complications of the authorities. If they succeed in overcoming this, they will get caught in...
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2000
For three days, Al-Khanka had lived in nervousness after a sit-in-strike, by Copts inside a Church which was closed ten years ago, threatened to cause communal unrest. The published report tells of the crisis, and the wise role of Pope Shenouda who was responsible for it ending peacefully.
Date of source: Sunday, April 16, 2000
Al-Ashmounain village in Al-Minya governorate is one of the main stations of the Holy Family. In spite of its historic importance, the security forces shut down the church in 1986 for "security reasons". What is really amazing is that when the people asked to re-open and restore the church, their...
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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.