Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 15, 2002
The RNSAW sent the summary of Akher Saa to the Seventh-day Adventist Church and received a response of the chairman of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Egypt.
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 15, 2002
The article gives the impression that the general opinion in Germany is opposed to the building of mosques. Revd. Dr. Wolfram Reiss, a German scholar and pastor who published before in the RNSAW, argued in correspondence with the RNSAW that this view is incorrect.
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 15, 2002
Media critique on the Palestinian issue in the Egyptian Press.
Meeting with Bible Society director Ramez Atallah about the way the Bible has been translated into Arabic.
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 14, 2002
One of the four books published recently by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya is titled “The Illegality of Extremism in Religion and of Charging Muslims With Kufr [unbelief].” In it, the leaders of the Gama´at consider charging Muslims with kufr an illegal act. They cited many Qur´anic verses and hadiths to...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 7, 2002
[Hisba is a term referring to the right of a Muslim to defend public morality and suing on behalf of religion.] The article comments on one of the four books published recently by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya. The book discusses the concept of hisba. The leaders of the Gama´at admitted that hisba was...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 9, 2002
[This text was seen by H.G. Bishop Botros before placement in the RNSAW] The RNSAW reported in week 06A, art. 16 about Bishop Botros´ fear his farm and project for mentally handicapped at Patmos would be damaged by a neighboring army unit. That fear was based on the destruction of some newly...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 13, 2002
The article in al-Musawwar has, in all likelyhood, a political background. It helps the government to test the ground whether or not the Mormon church should be granted a permit to function in Egypt.
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 2, 2002
The leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya expressed their complete agreement to end the actions to kill. They affirmed that their mistakes in the past came as a result of a false Ijtihad. In this article they explain the legal basis behind their renunciation of violence and reconsideration of old...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 5, 2002
The sense of danger implied in the idea of the inter-civilizational clash pushed a lot of thinkers and politicians to adopt the issue of inter-civilizational dialogue. The world knew other kinds of dialogues, for instance, the dialogue between the North and the South, the Arabic-European dialogue...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 12, 2002
The Reformatorisch Dagblad, a Dutch daily, reported on February 11 about the fear of Bishop Botros that an army unit would cause damage to his project for handicapped children at Patmos. This did not happen but the Bishop´s fear was based on his experiences with the same army unit (but with a...