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Date of source: Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Dr. Isaac Fānūs freely spoke his mind about the issues he found important. Dr. Fānūs was critical about ecclesiastical institutions and leadership, including those in his own Coptic Orthodox Church. In this interview religions are described as societal entities that humans have created and...
Date of source: Thursday, November 2, 2006
In an interview, Bishop Munīr Hannā, the head of the Episcopal Church
in Egypt, North Africa and the African Horn, stresses the peaceful co-existence between Christians and Muslims in
Egypt, urging to share inter-religious dialogue to spread the spirit of understanding rather than
fanaticism.
Date of source: Sunday, October 22, 2006
The author discusses the issue of the ordination of women in various Christian denominations and traditions.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 26, 1997
The author argues that there is a big campaign going on now in America and Israel against Egypt and the Arabs. This campaign is carried out under the name of protecting and saving the Christians of the Middle East from persecution, but is in fact aimed at stirring up sectarianism,...
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
The
article discusses a conference of Muslim-Christian dialogue between the Azhar’s Islamic
Research Academy and
the Episcopal Church in which the participants stressed the importance of cooperation for the
good of both
Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 5, 2006
In a Muslim-Christian dialogue meeting, the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Tantāwī, affirmed that jihād in Islam is exclusively for self-defense and not meant for attacking the innocent. He stressed the need to rectify this Western misconception about Islam.
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2006
Asmā’ ‘Abd Allāh reports on differing opinions
about
appointing a woman as head of the Anglican Church of America.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
The Episcopal Church is celebrating the
opening of the
second Alexandria School of Theology in a new attempt to prove its independence from the Evangelical
denominations.
Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2003
The writer reports on the meeting between the Grand Imam Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi and Bishop Mounir Hanna, head of the Episcopal Church in Egypt and North Africa. He describes the good relation that connects Al Azhar and the church.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 5, 2003
For the first time, members of an American Episcopal Church have chosen a man as bishop who frankly declared that he is a homosexual.
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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.