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Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 8, 2001
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published the text of a letter sent by rabbi David Sebastian to Clinton before one of Mubarak’s visits to the USA. In this letter he asked Clinton to raise the issue of the violation of Coptic religious freedom in Egypt. Mubarak’s last visit to the USA was also...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 8, 2001
A suspicious pamphlet from an unknown source asked for direct American intervention in Egypt’s affairs and for the American Marine forces to be stationed in Egypt to defend [American] foreign affairs here. It considered Copts as American subjects not as Egyptian citizens. It mentioned that churches...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 4, 2001
Rafique Iscander, the head of the American Coptic Union, sent a letter to President Bush. In this letter he made the events in southern Sudan, the crimes of the civil war in Lebanon and the individual incidents that took place in Egypt appear similar. He wrote that in return for the aid Egypt...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 1, 2001
Dr. Rafiq Habib is a Coptic intellectual who refused to meet with the American delegation for International Religious Freedom. He believes that the delegation tries to force what they call religious freedom, allowing American missionaries to work in Egypt to convert Muslims and Orthodox Copts to...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 4, 2001
An Israeli document, referred to by * in his defense file*** ,calls for establishing a Coptic country in Upper Egypt. It shows the target Israel wants to achieve since the 1980s. That is dividing each country of the Arab world. The author believes that this document explains what is going on in...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 29, 2001
Press Information Note 53 The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) met with Pope Shenouda, the head of the Coptic Church, and the Sheikh of the Azhar but otherwise was almost universally boycotted by both Christians and Muslims. The members of the Commission waited...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 26, 2001
The delegation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) completed its visit to Egypt. Three members of the Commission visited Egypt and will report to the rest of the nine-member Commission about the visit. No findings or conclusions can or will be made by the Commission...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 24, 2001 to الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 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: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 15, 2001
Foreign intelligence reports have revealed that Ben Laden has nominated the Egyptian Mohammed Atef, known as Abu Hafs, as his successor in the event of his arrest or death. Arab witnesses backed the report whilst officials from the White House said that arresting Ben Laden, although highly...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 15, 2000
The U.S. Catholic Conference expressed its deep disturbance with the efforts of extremists, in the Middle East and abroad, who incite and intensify religious conflict through inflammatory rhetoric, and anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and anti-Christian acts. It declared that the Holy Land must be a...
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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.