Date of source: Thursday, January 11, 2001
Introducing AWR press reviews. Growing media attention for RNSAW work.
Date of source: Thursday, December 21, 2000
Greek Orthodox Patriarch Diodoros I of Jerusalem has died from complications due to diabetes. His funeral will take place Friday 22 of December in the Church of Saints Constantine and Helena, inside the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. Archbishop Metropolitan Cornelius was elected by the Fraternity of...
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
This is the text of a lecture delivered in London by the general administrator of the Latin Catholic Church in Jerusalem, Father William Shomali, representing Latin Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabah of Jerusalem, during the investiture of the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulcher of England and...
Date of source: Thursday, December 7, 2000
Pope Shenouda explained in his weekly meeting in the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abassiya, Cairo, that he is very sad about the film Awan El Ward which is shown during Ramadan on Egyptian TV. He encouraged individual people to write letters of protest to the Egyptian Minister Safwat el-Sherif,...
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2000
The International Press Institute organized a seminar on "Media and Interreligious Dialogue" in Vienna and invited the Religious News Service from the Arab World (RNSAW) to be present because of its pioneering work in media and inter-religious dialogue in the Arab World.
Date of source: Thursday, November 30, 2000
The Editorial Board of the RNSAW announces six new members of the Board of Advisors.
Date of source: Thursday, November 30, 2000
Dr. Samir Marcos, associate secretary-general of the Middle East Council of Churches, describes the importance of late Metropolitan Athanasius for Egypt. He describes him foremost as a pioneer in development from a Christian perspective in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Cornelis Hulsman, editor-in-chief of the RNSAW, said during conference on "Media and Interreligious Dialogue," in Vienna, that "Accurate reporting on religious issues can result in understanding and dialogue while inaccurate reporting can have the opposite effect." He criticized much Western press...
Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2000
Hulsman interviewed Dr. Maurice Asad, former associate secretary-general of the Middle East Council of Churches, who knew Bishop Athanasius from before he was consecrated as a monk and father Dr. Christiaan van Nispen about their experiences with Bishop Athanasius. Dr. Asad described bishop...
Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2000
Metropolitan Athanasius of Beni Suef passed away, 77 years old, on November 16 after several years of ill health. The author writes about some of his personal experiences with the bishop who was a man striving for Christian unity and dialogue with Muslims.