Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 27, 1997
Initially Dr. Abdel Fatah Ali, former minister of health, forbade the circumcision of girls by unqualified persons, in other words, recognizing that medical practitioners could do the job. Nevertheless, especially among doctors, opposition to female circumcision is strong. Dr. Ismail Salam, Dr. Ali...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 1, 1997
The article is full of anger about a picture, drawn by an Israeli, in which the Prophet Muhammad was depicted as a pig. The article accuses the authorities of compliance because they didn’t prevent this happening and questions whether Israel should b allowed to participate in the coming economic...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 24, 1997
The article
is an attack
on the consecrated houses, secret churches established in private flats in opposition to the Coptic
Orthodox
Church. It claims that from these consecrated houses, a secret pope has emerged in opposition to Pope
Shenouda III. The consecrated houses are, according to...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 20, 1997
A Christian house in Minufia was set ablaze by a mob of Muslim believers because rumors were spread that a monk wanted to build a new church.
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 25, 1997
The terms ’kafir’ (unbeliever) and ’murtad’ (an
apostate from Islam)
are extremely important in Islam. The article discusses the recent court cases in Egypt
against people
accused of being ’murtad’, for example the case of Nasr Abu Zaid, a professor in Arabic at
the University of
Cairo, and...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 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: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 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: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 15, 1997
The editor
describes the difference between the Egyptian constitution
which calls for equality between Muslims and
Christians and the experience of an employee of the Sheraton-Hotel in
Cairo who was asked to convert to
Islam. The article is based on information provided by the law-office of...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 13, 1997
The article gives an Islamic view on the history of the Arab conquering of Christian
Egypt.
The article ends of views of different leading Muslims on the Hamayouni Law, the law regulating the
building of
churches.
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 13, 1997
According to the paper, the Roman Catholic Church is worried about the great number of conversions to Islam.