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Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2006
The review deals with the issue of Coptic divorce and Egyptian Orthodox Pope Shenouda’s position rejecting a recent court ruling allowing divorced Copts to remarry.
Date of source: Monday, July 18, 2005
The author, who is Deputy Chairman of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organizations, regards ordaining women as priests in churches as a sign of progress. What struck her attention most among the different viewpoints on this matter was that of Dr. Najīb Jubrā’īl, her boss, who firmly rejects...
Date of source: Monday, July 11, 2005
News of the inauguration of the first female priest in France yet adds to the shock waves sent to Egypt’s Orthodox Church from the West, after past announcements on the ordainment of a homosexual priest, the sanctioning of same-sex marriage and late Pope John Paul II’s statements exculpating the...
Date of source: Monday, July 4, 2005
Some 70 Members of Parliament reject a visit to be paid by the US Congress Freedom from Religious Persecution Committee, which they view as an attempt to interfere in domestic political affairs and have an impact on the public opinion trends within the period in which Egypt is preparing for the...
Date of source: Monday, July 29, 2002
Rafiq Habib and Muhammad Afifi wrote a book on the impacts of Islamic traditions on Christians. Because Christians mixed with Muslims whose Shari´a allows a man to marry more than one wife, some Copts, in the beginning of the 17th century, asked the church to allow them to marry more than one...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Many of the sayings and stances of Jesus Christ show that He is not against sex. However, the early fathers of Christianity introduced the theory of sexual fasting and considered it the peak of faith. This anti-sex attitude led to an anti-women attitude and to many arguments concerning whether a...
Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2006
The author reports about the opionions of Christian Coptic girls on getting married to men who are candidates for priesthood. The author explains that a priest’s wife should have special qualifications due to the nature of her husband’s position.
Date of source: Saturday, December 24, 2005 to Friday, December 30, 2005
The author states that Christian ladies wear modest clothes following the example of the Virgin Mary.
Date of source: Thursday, September 22, 2005
A discussion of the difficulties for Copts wishing to divorce their spouses.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 8, 2005
It has to be understood why matters are so complicated in personal status matters for Copts, who beforehand used to belong to the Church in each and every detail of their lives.
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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.