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Date of source: Friday, April 18, 2008
In the article, the families of the two activists who were charged with inciting the April 6 strike and detained, claim that they do not even know if their relatives are still alive.
Date of source: Saturday, August 4, 2007 to Friday, August 10, 2007
There is no legislative standard in determining who is granted custody of the children in case of the parents’ divorce as a result of the father’s conversion. Similar cases are treated on a different basis with different results. An Egyptian lawyer said the situation was menacing sectarian sedition...
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2007
Fādī Emile discusses the problem of the Christian-born twins, Mario and Andrew, whose father’s conversion to Islam forced them to be registered as Muslims. Emile interviews the twins to speak about their perplexing problem.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2007
The following lines present a summary of an interview with Bishop Paphnotius, author of the controversial book ‘Hatmiyyat al-Nuhūd bi al-‘Amal al-Kanasī’ [The Inevitability of Developing the Church Functions.]. Bishop Baphnotius express his viewpoints from different issues related to the Coptic...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 29, 2000
The incident began on November 17, 1998. G.K.B. filed a warning request against M.L.G. of applying to his rented Beit El-Ta’a [literally means, house of obedience. It is the husband’s house to which a woman, in a case of unlawful desertion, must return]. Based on that request, the defendant filed...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
No religion will gain or lose anything if its followers increase or decrease. This is applied to Islam and this is also applied to other religions. Hence, it was not strange to find Al-Azhar trying to hold up a dialogue between it and the Vatican. They have agreed that dialogue between different...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
If the Muslim wife does not obey the Islamic Sharia and submit to her husband, then she will be considered "Nashez." This is quite natural to the Muslims, but when this happens to Christian wives, this is extraordinary because the Church does not agree with this sentence.
Date of source: Monday, May 11, 1998
Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi says the personal status law does not contradict the religious doctrine in any way. The application of the law is, however, the duty of the judge who may use his own judgment.
Date of source: Friday, May 8, 1998
The declaration of the Sheik Al-Azhar that Bait Al-Ta’a, The institution of forcing the wife who has left the house of her husband to return to it, does not exist in Islamic theology, angered a lot of Muslim scholars.
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.