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Date of source: Sunday, April 21, 2019
During the Sunday Mass, the Palm Sunday has been celebrated with the Incense Chapel. The priest lit the incense in front of the altar and then lit the cross and the icon of the Palm, decorated with palm fronds and flowers, reciting the chapters of the cycle known as the cycle of the Cross.
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Akher Saa, al-
Arabi and al-Ahali approached Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christian clergymen, from Egypt and Palestine, and
asked them to comment on the crisis of the Church of the Nativity. They all criticized Sharon?s practices against the
birthplace of Jesus Christ and against the...
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Many articles
focussed on the opinions of religious and political leaders concerning the crisis around the Church of the Nativity.
They compared responses from different churches; Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic.
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The Israeli siege of
the Church of Nativity shows that Arab Christians stand alongside Muslims in the fight against Israel. The newly
founded Christian al-Mahd [al-Mahd = nativity, named after the Church of the Nativity] organization places martyrdom
operations on their priorities list. The...
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More than 10,000 Muslims and
Christians attended the ?National Conference to Support the Palestinians? that was held in the St. Mark Cathedral upon
the call of Pope Shenouda. The conference was an expression of Egyptians? objection to the Israeli practices against
the Palestinians. Pope Shenouda...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Dr. Nasr Abu-Zayd was awarded the Freedom of Worship Prize by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Organization. At first he was hesitant about accepting this prize, fearing that he may be accused of becoming an agent for the West. However the author encouraged him to accept it as it is an...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Pope Shenouda assured that the Egyptian Church rejects any aggression over religious sites whether they are Islamic or Christian. He added that the international community had been negligent towards the besieging of the Church of the Nativity because it dealt with it as a political and not a...
16. An invitation to the churches for solidarity with the Church of the Nativity and the Aqsa Mosque
Date of source: Sunday, May 12, 2002
The article is a comparison between the attitude of the Church in Egypt and that of the West, especially America, toward the crisis of the Church of the Nativity. While the Church in Egypt held a conference in St. Mark Cathedral to express its support for the Palestinians, the American president...
Date of source: Sunday, May 12, 2002
The author criticizes the way Dr. Nabil Luka Bibawi writes about emigrant Copts. He commented on two of his articles. He concluded that Egypt needs emigrant Copts, as they occupy high social positions. Getting close to them cannot be achieved in Bibawi´s way of writing about them. Full Text Dr...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 1, 2002
The Christian West launched the Crusades against Arabs and Muslims on the plea of protecting the Christian holy places in Palestine against them. The West turned the world upside down when the Taliban demolished the statue of Buddha. But the West did not move when the statue of Virgin Mary at 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.