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Date of source: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
The Vatican’s Pope intends to pray in the great Umayad mosque in Syria. Still, setting up this papal prayer in this great mosque is not likely to appeal to the Islamic world, it might as well be pictured as an intrusion and an indecent act.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Religious dialogue is a positive freedom, it strengthens the vitality of the mind and the soul. It saves the soul from being crushed by petty worthless things. Religious dialogue is founded on freedom, so it can never be practiced under any pressure or coercion. It is only if man is enslaved by...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 29, 2000
Archbishop Loutfi Laham has been elected by the Melkite synod as the new Patriarch of the Melkite Catholic Church. His recognition by Pope John Paul II is expected soon.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Haider is astonished by the critical attack in Egypt against his work" Banquet for the Seaweed". He says that characters in literary works are free to think as they wish, even to adopt opposing thoughts.
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
A man wrote a letter to the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, claiming that he is the Mahdi who, in Islam, comes at the end of times. The article further explains the concept of this self-acclaimed Mahdi on the end of times and the response of well-known Muslim scholars.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 13, 1999
Lebanese researcher George Qirm, a Christian, says "Non-Muslims were only severely persecuted under some Muslim rulers. Sporadic suppression as such was mainly governed by three factors: moody Caliphs, economic and social conditions of Muslim masses and intervention of foreign powers.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Were the applications of our Islamic civilization free from negative elements, from differentiation between majorities and minorities? Treason of Christians in the time of the Mongols led to the destruction of their houses by Muslims.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Pope John Paul II will make a "pilgrimage" in Iraq at the beginning of December and will meet President Saddam Hussein, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Raphael Bidawid said on August 27. "The dates have not yet been fixed but the visit will take place between December 2 and 5," the Baghdad-based...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 17, 1999
The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood movement on Monday refuted press reports that Jordan requested brotherhood members exiled here not to convene the Shura Council in order not to damage Amman’s mending ties with Damascus.
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni managed, to a large extent, on Sunday [May 23, 199], to win the support of Shura Council members for some of his decisions, especially the relocation of the Museum of Islamic Arts to the Citadel area and the organization of an international celebration to...
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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.