Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 12, 1997
Fahmy Huweidy discusses responses he received to an article he wrote previously. He finds the Coptic associations in North America extreme, but many Copts in Egypt defend their behaviour.Huweidy was asked to write this time about the situation of the Copts in Egypt. Is there persecution or not?...
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 10, 1997
Ragab El -Banna argues that it is the right of Egyptians to be angry about the American threat in Congress to cut aid to Egypt, since it is a new attempt to make Arabs approve the Israeli conditions for peace and surrender to the violent policy of Netanyahu.The author interviewed Pope Shenouda and...
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 10, 1997
The author
criticizes the journalism of excitement that tries to attract readers who share the same attitude.
Watani is
proud that it follows the journalism of honor. Watani works with a protocol, whose
full text is provided and
rejects publications which stir up the sentiments of Muslims or...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 13, 1997
Those who build
churches and mosques build
them for God. God dwells in the mosque and the church. Egyptians have lived for
thousands of years in one country.
Many religions have been in Egypt. Even during pagan times, not one
religion dominated, neither were there
religious fights. There...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 10, 1997
Subtitle:1 - The attitude of the pope towards the emigrant Copts is not decisive, though they have betrayed the home country.2 - The church should not be limited to talking about the problems of the Copts. It has a general social role that it should undertake.The author argues that neither the...
Date of source:
Subtitle:Who has the right to tolerate in the religion of our God?
Who is the greatest, the Imam or
our God?An interview with Dr. Yehya Ismael, the secretary general of the
Front of Azhar Scholars,
about the battle which the front has started against the Sheikh of the Azhar, Dr. Mohammed...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 25, 1997
Discussion about the issue of divorce in the Coptic church, the ten conditions under which divorce was allowed in the 1938 law, and Pope Shenouda’s rejection of these conditions.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 1997
Subtitle:1- The Higher
Council of Islamic Research declares
"Changing religious denominations does not allow a Christian to ask for
the divorce according to Islamic
law.2- It also states "The court has to give the verdict according
to the religious laws of the
husband.3- The church calls for...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2, 1997
This article
contains the reply of Pope
Shenouda to a demand by Wasiem Roushdi Al-Seici that the pope erase the verses of
the Torah that attack Egypt.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 29, 1997
Subtitle:Please bury the dead man and stop crying on his graveA complaint about religious
fanaticism and a lady’s personal experience of what she sees as religious discrimination.