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Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2001
The Religious Freedom Commission is not a non-governmental organization. It is an official committee financed by the United States Federal Government. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom [USCIRF] was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 27 January 1998,...
Date of source: Saturday, March 24, 2001 to Friday, March 30, 2001
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom met with Bishop Marcos of Shoubra Al-Kheima and asked him about the rulings given in Al-Kosheh killings, underage Christian girls turning to Islam and about the non-inclusion of the Coptic period in the history syllabus. Coptic Catholic Bishop...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001 to Friday, March 23, 2001
A delegation from the American Committee for International Religious Freedom is heading for Cairo to meet with a number of Egyptian officials and representatives from religious institutions. The committee’s spokesman said that the committee’s main task is to monitor religious status in a number of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001
The US Committee for International Religious Freedom arrived in Egypt to investigate about Copts in Egypt, after the court announced its decision in Al-Kosheh case. The author is of the opinion that the United States is using the religious and ethnic minorities as one of the main mechanisms to...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001
General background information about the visit of three members of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the occupied territories provided by the US Embassy in Cairo.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 7, 2001
The US State Department of Foreign Affairs issued its 25th report on human rights. It criticized the harsh restrictions imposed on freedom of expression and the press. It mentioned that the Christian minority suffers from discrimination, especially when matters are related to the building and...
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2001
Seven Coptic MPs are preparing to issue a report declaring their rejection of a visit from the Congress’ Committee for Religious Freedoms. The report might be issued in coordination with some Coptic figures. The Coptic point of view is that the visit touches upon things that are related to the...
Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2001
The American Congress formed a fact-finding committee to visit Al-Kosheh. The committee intends to meet Copts, investigate the religious and educational syllabus they study and discuss the rulings given in the action of Al-Kosheh II. The American Freedom House and many Coptic organizations...
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2001
The Grand Sheikh of the Azhar received the American under-secretary of state and head of the International Office of Religious Freedom in the United States. He explained that the thousand-year-old Azhar is based on moderation and investigating the true religious issues and calls for the spreading...
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 1999
This Freedom from Religious Persecution Act gives America the right to interfere in diplomatic ways to the concerned governments and if a government does not respond, it is the right of the U.S. administration to impose any sanctions that it (the U.S.) sees fit. The author stresses that several...
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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.