Date of source: Monday, October 2, 2006
Attendees chanted "long live the Crescent with the Cross" at an iftār
celebration held by the evangelical denomination for Islamic leaders.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Egyptian newspapers present mixed reactions to Pope Benedict’s "apology" for comments he made earlier
this
month on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. In light of the already tense atmosphere in the Muslim world,
a Berlin
opera company canceled Mozart’s ’Idomeneo’ for fear of protest over...
Date of source: Sunday, August 10, 1997
Ragab El -Banna argues that it is the right of Egyptians to be angry about the American threat in Congress to cut aid to Egypt, since it is a new attempt to make Arabs approve the Israeli conditions for peace and surrender to the violent policy of Netanyahu.The author interviewed Pope Shenouda and...
Date of source: Sunday, August 17, 1997
The story of a Christian boy who converted to Islam in return for sweets, and the father’s response, which was jokingly to offer a Muslim boy a larger packet of sweets to become a Christian, is presented as a positive example of Muslim-Christian relations, since both boys’ fathers shared the joke.
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 1997
Yousef Sidhom, editor-in-chief of Watani, responds to an article of Islamist author Fahmy Huweidy in Al-Ahram newspaper demanding that the Coptic church denounce all extremist movements who tarnish the image of Egypt on the international stage by focusing on negative aspects of Egypt, including...
Date of source: Friday, June 20, 1997
Subtitle: The permanent committee for research gives a fatwa (religious decision)!Religious leaders in Saudi Arabia oppose plans to stimulate the unity between Islam, Judaism and Christianity, by building a mosque, church and synagogue in public places and printing the Qur’an, Old and New Testament...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 18, 1997
The monk congratulates the sheikh in a letter to the editor with his sermon on TV which he sees as an example of religious tolerance. The fact that the monk felt that he had to write such a letter shows that not all preachers are like this sheikh.
Date of source: Thursday, September 14, 2006
Egypt’s
endowments minister, Dr. Mahmūd Hamdī
Zaqzūq, discussed the respect Islam has for the other at the
World Religious Leaders Conference held in
Kazakhstan.
Date of source: Monday, September 18, 2006
Wa’il al-Hadarī reports on the alleged murder of two Christians in Sohag.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
The author asserts that jokes about Muslim-Christian relations are spread
by undercover
institutions to kindle sectarian clashes.