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Date of source: Saturday, January 20, 2001 to Friday, January 26, 2001
Baha’i sect was founded in Iran. Its followers believe in all prophets and that they are equal. They pray three times a day. For them women are considered flowers for all people to smell and enjoy. Although following this trend was forbidden in Egypt in 1971, the police arrested some people, in...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 1999
This article is an outline of a book of Dr. Abdel Wahab al-Missiri about the Baha’is which was published in 1993. Al-Missiri studied the protocols of the Free Masons and the Baha’is and wrote that some people believe that Jews participated in the great Jewish conspiracy and used their connections...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 20, 1999
The US State Department announced on October 6 that China, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar (Burma), and Sudan were liable for diplomatic and economic sanctions for engaging in "particularly severe violations of religious freedom during the preceding 12 months."
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 1999
The State Department has designated China, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar and Sudan as countries of particular concern for violations of religious freedom, making them liable for U.S. diplomatic and economic sanctions, spokesman James Rubin said Wednesday.
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 1999
This Freedom from Religious Persecution Act gives America the right to interfere in diplomatic ways to the concerned governments and if a government does not respond, it is the right of the U.S. administration to impose any sanctions that it (the U.S.) sees fit. The author stresses that several...
Date of source: Friday, September 10, 1999
A report produced by the American Ministry of Foreign Affairs about religious freedom criticized practices to which women and the religious minorities are exposed in Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
[This text was downloaded from the following URL:
(http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/irf/irf_rpt/fs_990909_irf.html)]
The full text of the Fact Sheet as downloaded off the internet.
Date of source: Sunday, August 9, 1998
A birth certificate issued by the health office of Mit Aqba states a family’s religion as Bahai.
Date of source: Monday, June 15, 1998
The author is upset about discrimination of a Cairo-University lecturer in dentistry and calls what happened "absurdities".
The article explains the background behind the commotion about someone becoming a lecturer. Some people who oppose her say she is Bahai while the person herself says she is...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 16, 1998
Bahai’s had a lodge in Cairo with a head office in Ramses street. They were registered in courts but were then banned in 1960. Two Bahai representatives were arrested by the police one in 1972 and the other in 1985. Bahais may be another minority that the United States is planning to protect as an...
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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.