Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 1, 2001
The Supreme State Security Prosecution arrested two fundamentalists for trying to revive the activities of the prohibited "Al Takfeer wa Al-Hegra" group. The arrest came as a result of a campaign that aimed to pin down the fifteen members of the group.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 27, 2000
The biggest Coptic church in the world will be built in New York on a surface area of more than ten feddans and will cost $70 million. An Egyptian Coptic engineer and an American engineering office won the international competition that was held to design the church.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 27, 2000
The photo of the Holy Virgin, which was published by both Al-Ahali and Akher Sa’a, is widely spread among Copts all over Egypt. No one denied or confirmed that this was a photo of the virgin. All the stories that were told about the appearance of the Virgin Mary say that she appeared as a halo of...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 27, 2000
Father Matta Al-Maskeen asked the Ministers of Agriculture and Culture to intervene in executing a demolition decree on a farm exporting ducks’ livers. The farm is established on land nearby the monastery of Makarios in Wadi Al- Natrun with its many Coptic antiquities.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 29, 2000
At the conference called "Seeing is a right for all," which was held at the Ministry of Health, the Grand Imam and the Mufti said they agreed to the transplantation or donation of body organs as long as this was done legally and agreed upon by doctors. They quoted many Qur’anic verses to support...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 21, 2000
Greek Orthodox Patriarch Diodoros I of Jerusalem has died from complications due to diabetes. His funeral will take place Friday 22 of December in the Church of Saints Constantine and Helena, inside the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. Archbishop Metropolitan Cornelius was elected by the Fraternity of...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 19, 2000
Excerpts of the program on sharing the Muslim-Christian heritage in Palestine in Bethlehem on Friday, December 22, 2000.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 19, 2000
The first Coptic weekly appeared in 1892 and it was called "The weekly religion bulletin." After that other Coptic magazines appeared. The major aim of most Coptic magazines is religious. They are published in a weak artistic and journalistic form because of their low cost as they depend only on...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 21, 2000
The head of the central council of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jordan and Palestine said, after their Patriarch had passed away and was buried, that the council members will decide what to do in order to correct the course of the church. He asserted that selling land of the church is illegal. The...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 19, 2000
The Minster of Waqfs agreed to return about 54.5 feddan in Assiut to the Evangelical church.