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Date of source: Tuesday, December 25, 2001
The increase in the number of the Coptic wives filing lawsuits before the court to get permission to remarry has led to annulling the ecclesiastical regulation that states that the wife whose husband is missing has to wait for 30 years for her husband before she is able to remarry. The article...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
A Christian orthodox husband filed a lawsuit asking for his marriage contract to be considered invalid as his orthodox wife had married him only one month after she was divorced from her first husband. This means that she married him before the end of the months of Edda [the period she needs to...
Date of source: Friday, August 3, 2001
President Mubarak issued a presidential decree approving the new management board of the Coptic Endowments Authority. Officials within the authority explain that the problems between the authority and the Ministry of Endowments are dissolving after the authority reclaimed 600 feddans. The total...
Date of source: Thursday, July 5, 2001
Pope Shenouda avoided talking about the crisis of Al-Nabaa in his last weekly lecture. He confirmed the situation of peace and comfort within the Coptic community under the media campaigns and the legal procedures that supported them throughout the crisis. The Christian Al-Kiraza magazine...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2001
Pope Shenouda declared to members of the Maglis El-Milli that among his proposals for solving Coptic problems was the formation of a committee of the wise men of the state whose task would be to study Coptic positions and determine the causes of the problems as well as working in complete secrecy.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that the cancellation of the pope’s weekly meeting was accompanied by fear of a return to the denominational atmosphere of the September 1981 events. The fact that the Coptic youth didn’t protest about Al-Nabaa to the People’s Assembly or the Supreme Press Council...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2001
There is a relationship of a special kind between the nation and the Copts. That relationship was represented in individual Copts who were rich or highly educated who had special relationships with the governor. The author is of the opinion that if a group of Muslim and Christian wise men is formed...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2001
Thousands of outraged Copts converged on St Mark’s Cathedral to express their anger to Pope Shenouda and ask for decisive measures against the newspaper. Watani talked to the Pope and Church leaders; and conveyed readers’ questions about the truth of the story. The shocked public demanded that the...
Date of source: Friday, June 22, 2001
Egyptian Administrative Court ruled that archpriest Salib Matta Sawerus, member of the Milli Council, has the right to enter elections in the fourth district in Shoubra El-Kheima. He feels that Pope Shenouda giving him permission to enter the elections expresses his conviction that Copts should be...
Date of source: Thursday, June 14, 2001
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria approved the new executive board of the Orthodox Coptic General Milli Council. Members of the council chose the vice president and secretary for the council and the heads of eight committees.
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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.