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Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2000
In Jordan, archaeologists have discovered a place, in the region of green hills and springs, which is said to be really the place where John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ. It is worth mentioning that before this discovery it was said that Christ was baptized on the West Bank of the river...
Date of source: Friday, March 10, 2000
The Jordanians succeeded in persuading the Pope to visit the new baptism site [where Jesus was supposedly baptized] in Bethany in Jordan on March 21. The Jordanians claim that John the Baptist had been baptizing the believers in this place. In addition to that the Jordanian Minister of Tourism...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 1999
There was a general sense of mea-culpa among Muslim Brotherhood officials on Monday, one day after a surprise decision to "transfer" four detained Hamas leaders abruptly ended their six-week-long mediation between the government and the Islamic Resistance Movement.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 1999
Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Majali on Monday said the government had to deport four Hamas leaders because they would not accept Jordan’s conditions to resolve the deadlock between the two sides.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 1999
Sub-title: ’Hamas has insisted on its position, which justified taking measures to protect Jordan’s security’ His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday said the Hamas issue will be resolved soon, but noted that there can be no return to the former situation, stressing that recent measures taken by the...
Date of source: Friday, November 5, 1999
A member of the Jordan Writers Association "suspended himself" last week from the executive board, over several disputes with the president, Fakhri Kawar because he had met with Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic during a recent trip to Yugoslavia where he signed an agreement without informing...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 10, 1999
Jordanian authorities have arrested a leading activist of the militant Palestinian group Hamas who had been on the run since an official clampdown in August on the organization, Islamist sources said yesterday.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 10, 1999
The optimism that followed the first round of negotiations between the Jordanian government and the Muslim Brotherhood to secure the release of Hamas resistance movement leaders from Jordanian jails seems to have ebbed.
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 1999
"Fundamentalist" elements are said to be behind recent assaults and intimidation of faculty members at Ma’an’s fledgling Hussein Ben Talal University, sources said on Saturday.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 3, 1999
The Jordan Press Association council on Tuesday postponed the execution of a recent decision to expel three journalists who visited Israel in September, a council member said.
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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.