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Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Pope Frances sent Pope Tawadros a letter marking the second year since they met in the Vatican in 2013. Pope Frances reportedly stressed that their shared faith unites the two parishes now more than any time in the past. Remembering the Christians who have recently been killed in the Middle East,...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
After the Easter celebrations, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II will leave for his first visit to the Diaspora churches in Europe. His trip will start with a visit to Italy and then to the Vatican, where he will meet the new Vatican Pope Francis I. A source of the Church revealed that Pope Tawadros...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
On Wednesday, al-Maydān published an interview with Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, the Grand Imām of the Azhar.
Al-Tayyib said that those who carried out the bombing of the Church of the Two Saints in Alexandria on New Year’s Day are “enemies of the Prophet.”
The interviewer told the Grand Imām that some...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd reports that scholars attending the preparatory meeting for the Sixth World Forum of Azhar Graduates issued a statement in support of the Azhar’s decision to freeze dialogue with the Vatican.
The Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy decided to suspend its biannual religious...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2011
On Friday, both Rose al-Yūsuf and al-Ahrār boasted major front-page stories on the Azhar’s decision to freeze its religious dialogue with the Vatican.
Under the banner headline “Azhar Freezes Dialogue with Vatican Indefinitely,” the former reports, “The Islamic Research Academy, in clear,...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2011
The Grand Imām of the Azhar met over the weekend with former Lebanese President Amīn al-Jamayal, who submitted an offer to mediate between the Azhar and the Vatican for a resumption of dialogue, according to Rose al-Yūsuf.
Last week, the Azhar froze its bi-annual interfaith dialogue sessions with...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2011
The article of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz reports about the Azhar’s indefinite suspension of interfaith dialogue with the Vatican.
Pope Benedict XVI’s repeated criticism on Islam and his calls for increased protection of Christians in Egypt and the Middle East are named as main reasons for the Azhar’s freeze of...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church did not send representatives to the founding meeting of the Azhar’s Family Home initiative on Saturday, according to al-Wafd.
A church source told the paper that two senior members of the Coptic Orthodox hierarchy had been scheduled to attend the meeting, but he...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2011
The Azhar’s decision to freeze religious dialogue with the Vatican has aroused controversy in Christian, legal, and intellectual circles in Egypt, according to al-Dustūr.
Last week the Sunnī Islamic institution made the decision to indefinitely suspend its bi-annual interfaith dialogue sessions...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2011
Representatives attending the closing session of the Islamic Parliamentary Conference in Abu Dhabi say that Egypt is an example of genuine coexistence between Muslims and Christians, according to state-supported al-Jumhūrīyah.
The paper says that conference attendees expressed their support for...
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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.