Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 12, 2001
Pope Shenouda accepted a grant given by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain. The grant specified that an old Church of England building is to be changed into an Egyptian Orthodox Church. The aim of the grant is to serve the Egyptian community in Britain.
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 8, 2001
The RNSAW usually places no articles which were not published in an Arab medium in the Arab World or which have no relation to the Arab World. In this case this text of CAIR-NET is provided because of the article below in Asharq Al-Awsat, one day after the CAIR-NET (and probably others) spread the...
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 9, 2001
Britain finished preparing a new Anti-Terrorism Law. Although the law was not approved by the House of Commons, it was enforced when security at Heathrow Airport took three fundamentalists into custody. The new law aims to stop the raising of funds and supporting of extremist groups, based in...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 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: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 12, 2001
Al-Hayat received a statement signed by the Islamic Quds Committee. The statement attacked the Brotherhood group and the way in which it dealt with the lawyer of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, in the Bar’s elections. An official in the Quds Committee, denied that the committee had issued this statement....
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 1, 2001
The priest of the Church of the Holy Virgin, in Minya, died and his brother, his [brother’s] maid and the driver were injured when their car crashed into a lamppost after one of its tires exploded.
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 2, 2001
The Catholic Patriarch of Egypt pointed out that there is a difference between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox one concerning dealing with the issue of Al-Quds [Jerusalem]; the Orthodox Church rejects visits to Jerusalem considering it as a kind of normalization [of relations with Israel]....
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2001
The Mufti of Egypt, labeled marriage to Israeli women haram [religiously forbidden]. He said that Israel aims to destroy the Arabic existence by encouraging such marriages.
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 2, 2001
Pope Shenouda visited the Mufti to congratulate him on the Greater Bairam. Their conversation did not address anything political. It confined itself to how to consolidate national unity, the Islamic-Christian dialogue and Dar Al-Ifta joining the Committee of Inter-Religious Dialogue.
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2001
Pope Shenouda exalted the climate of freedom and democracy; all Egyptians live in, in the shade of the leadership of President Mubarak. He said that the idea that Jews are God’s chosen people is wrong. He criticized the Vatican for discharging Jews from wronging Jesus Christ and shedding his blood.