Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2001
The Arab Orthodox Christian denomination in Jordan warned against granting 62 Greek monks the Jordanian nationality. The Greek Patriarch has applied a request to the Jordanian government to grant 62 Greek monks the Jordanian nationality to win their votes in the coming elections to choose a...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2001
Jehovah’s witnesses sent a letter to Al-Mussawar defending themselves against Pope Shenouda’s accusations of them. They declared that they are not Jews nor Zionist but Christians and that they oppose Zionism.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2001
The 13th International Islamic Conference will be held in Cairo next May. The conference will discuss innovations in Islamic thought. The Minister of the Waqfs declared that the conference will be followed by a celebration of the Birth of the Prophet Mohammed.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2000
The supreme Administrative Court ruled in favor of canceling a previous ruling by the Governor of Cairo, which states the Azhar Scholars Front should be dissolved.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 14, 2001
The agreement of the Egyptian government to celebrate the mulid of Abu Hasera led to a crisis between it and members of parliament. The members representing Baheira said that the government’s agreement to hold the mulid after it had previously cancelled it challenged the feelings of the Egyptians...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 12, 2001
The Grand Sheikh of the Azhar received the American under-secretary of state and head of the International Office of Religious Freedom in the United States. He explained that the thousand-year-old Azhar is based on moderation and investigating the true religious issues and calls for the spreading...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 10, 2001
For the second time sentencing in the second Al-Kosheh case was postponed. The accused went to the Criminal Court of Sohag for the session at which verdicts were to be announced. However, the court was closed as one of the judges was ill. So the court decided to postpone the session until the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 10, 2001
The leaders of Jihad, the terrorist group, have announced that they will resume their armed activity against the government system in Egypt. They will continue until they manage to overthrow it. The announcement came in the editorial of the first edition of their new magazine, "Al-Mujahidun."
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2001
The head of the Pakistani Brotherhood warned the military ruler of Pakistan that the Brotherhood will declare its own Islamic government if he does not enforce Islamic Shari’a [law] by March 7.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 10, 2001
The imminent Bar Syndicate elections caused conflicts among the Brotherhood members. The Guidance Office chose Mohammed Toson to fill the place of Mokhtar Nuh, the ex-treasurer of the Bar Syndicate, now sentenced to three years imprisonment. By doing so, it ignored Ahmed Rabie, the committee’s...