Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 4, 1999
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators threw garbage and tear gas at secular Jews driving through their neighborhood during the Jewish Sabbath on Saturday [July 3?, 1999], police said.
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 4, 1999
In an advance text of the [Roman Catholic] Pope’s remarks handed out to reporters, the Pope mentioned areas in Iraq, Egypt, and cities in the Holy Land ruled by Israel and the Palestinian Authority as places he would like to visit.
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 4, 1999
The Ministry of Public Works and Housing on Saturday awarded a local firm a JD 5 million contract to construct tourist facilities near the biblical site of Bethany where Jesus Christ was baptized. Ministry of Tourism officials said the development of the baptism site is expected to attract both...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 4, 1999
Exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden and his followers, blamed by the United States for 1998 embassy bombings in Africa, have set up operations at a new base in Afghanistan, the Observer newspaper said on Sunday [July 4?, 1999]. It said bin Laden’s new hideout was in hills a few miles south of...
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 1, 1999 to الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 7, 1999
Hardline militants of Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) threatened on June 27 to create a "bloodbath" in Belgium if the authorities there do not release several of its leaders jailed last month.
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 1, 1999 to الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 7, 1999
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seeking broad support for a peace accord with rebels to try to end seven years of violence. He will organize a referendum on the deal in July and has pledged to quit if the bill does not survive the plebiscite, well-placed sources told Algeria’s daily La...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 6, 1999
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar has issued a decision to transfer all the administrative employees of the Fatwa committee in Al-Azhar to other works. He also ordered the reformation of the Fatwa committee according to the article 1150 issued in 1997. He also decided to hire Sheikh Tosoun Ibrahim...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 2, 1999
On the list of the most hateful practices, injustice ranks very high. Since injustice is so incompatible with Islamic order, we need to make sure that it applies to all people, particularly those who are vulnerable to abuse of power by others.
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 3, 1999
The controversy over the reality of Prophet Mohammed’s intercession on Doomsday has been dramatically aggravated after controversial thinker Dr. Moustafa Mahmoud repeatedly emphasized that there is no such a thing as intercession. His opinion stirred the emotions of Sheikhs and Muslim scholars who...
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 27, 1999
Eight years ago, a group of scientists declared that they had discovered the tomb of Jesus Christ with the handkerchief of Veronica beside it. The author states that missions which aim at discovering the Christian artifacts, aim at the same time at raising the role of the West over that of the...