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Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2001
This is the full text of an article written for Christianity Today in the US. It gives an overview of the Egyptian responses against the visit of a delegation of the US Commission for on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Many church leaders and observers believe the American focus on...
Date of source: Friday, April 13, 2001
Public manifestations of Christian faith become less in Egyptian society. The celebration of palm Sunday in the Upper Egyptian village of Sarakna, 315 km south of Cairo, is one of the last villages where this is possible. The article explains Muslims in villages want their villages have a Muslim...
Date of source: Saturday, April 7, 2001 to Friday, April 13, 2001
Contrary to what happened during Mubarak’s last visit to the USA, the majority of emigrant Copts came to greet Mubarak in a civilized way, asking him to order a resumption of the investigations into Al-Kosheh incidents. Rafique Iscander and Moheb Michael, head of the Soldiers of the Cross, were...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001 to Friday, March 23, 2001
A delegation from the American Committee for International Religious Freedom is heading for Cairo to meet with a number of Egyptian officials and representatives from religious institutions. The committee’s spokesman said that the committee’s main task is to monitor religious status in a number of...
Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2001
Dr. Leitch, a Jehovah’s witness, commented on pope Shenouda’s statements on Jehovah Witnesses in Al-Musawwar [RNSAW, 2001, week 01A, art. 13]. He said that Jehovah’s Witnesses appreciate factual information published by the American Jews but they do not influence Jehovah’s Witnesses any more than...
Date of source: Monday, January 8, 2001
The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrated Christmas on January 7. The Saturday evening mass, which lasted 2.5 hours was broadcast live on Egyptian TV. Many prominent Egyptians were present. Channel 3, interviewed Pope Shenouda, the Grand Imam and others about national unity. Of course, both Muslims and...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
Dr. Rodolph Yanney, president of the Society of Coptic Church Studies and founder and editor of Coptic Church Review in 1980, gave the RNSAW permission to bring his articles in the Copts Digest and the Coptic Daily Digest, published in 1999, together in one report describing the factors leading to...
Date of source: Sunday, December 10, 2000
The State Security Prosecution continued its investigations of Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The investigation this time concentrated on the relation between the Ibn Khaldoun Center and the Research Center for Development in Canada and the Council of Social Sciences in New York and whether Ibrahim introduced...
Date of source: Friday, November 24, 2000
A group of between 45 and 50 Israeli settlers attacked Father Ibrahim Hijazine, a Catholic priest from Ramallah after he had preached in Nablus. On his way back to Ramallah they forced him to go back saying that he can’t use this road because it is for Israelis only. When Father Ibrahim told them...
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2000
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd delivered this lecture upon accepting the prestigious Cleveringa professorial chair at Leiden University in The Netherlands with the request to teach justice, freedom and responsibility and especially the freedom of religion and liberty of conscience. The lecture discussed the...
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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.