Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 17, 2008
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman comments on three interesting articles in this edition of AWR by Hānī Labīb about Muslim-Christian relations and points to two interviews with Pope Shenouda in this issue that again raise the question of who will succeed the current patriarch.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 5, 2007
Drs. Hulsman’s report discusses the state of past and present relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. The paper opens by giving information about Pope Shenouda III and the most important incidents that have taken place during his reign. The second half of the paper then looks at specific...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 12, 2007
Pope Shenouda has opened the first Coptic Orthodox St. Paul the Apostolic church in al-‘Ubūr city.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 16, 2007
The prosecution of al-Waylī suburb has called for the removal Pope Shenouda from his office and calls for him to be arrested after he ignored a prosecution summons three times.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 13, 2007
Yāsir al-Shūrī has accused Bishop Kyrillos of changing his stance and withdrawing his statements against Maj. General Majdī Ayyūb Iskandar, governor of Qena. al-Shūrī claims that there was a strongly-worded message from Pope Shenouda’s secretary.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 16, 2007
Provocative statements by two members of the Islamic Research Academy; Dr. Zaghlūl al-Najjār and Dr. Muṣṭafá Muḥammad al-Shak‘ah, ignited the anger of Copts in Egypt when they attacked the Christian belief.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 19, 2007
The article is a response to questions received by AWR in 2003 from different Western churches, Christian organizations, Christian leaders and Human Rights Watch, based on material from Western sources and interviews with a few western missionaries then living in Egypt.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 6, 2007
An anonymous author alleged that there is a state of conflict between the church represented in the bishop of Naj‘ Ḥammādī and the governor of Qinā, the Upper Egyptian governorate. The following day al-Wafd published a response from the bishop in which he denied any conflict and describes the...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 7, 2007
Pope Shenouda has filed a lawsuit against both President Mubārak and the governor of Maṭrūḥ Gen. Muḥammad al-Shaḥḥāt for issuing a decree to seize a plot of land that belongs to St. Marina church in al-‘Alamayn city.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 10, 2007
Pope Shenouda III will open the church of St. Paul in the city of al-‘Ubūr tomorrow.