Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 10, 2001
The author expressed his support to Pope Shenouda in urging the government to put legal restrictions on the use of priests and monks uniforms, because unlike the Muslim sheikhs, they have spiritual authority over their followers.
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 16, 2001
Pope Shenouda declared to members of the Maglis El-Milli that among his proposals for solving Coptic problems was the formation of a committee of the wise men of the state whose task would be to study Coptic positions and determine the causes of the problems as well as working in complete secrecy.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 11, 2001
Beside recounting how the state dealt with Al-Nabaa crisis and commenting on the pope’s decision to limit tourism to monasteries, the author expressed the opinion that the crisis of Al-Nabaa negatively affected journalism and pushed 35 MPs to introduce a draft law to sweep away the amount of...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 15, 2001
[text taken from Watani website]
Many Egyptian intellectuals believe that the crisis of Al-Nabaa has placed before the society the reality of the Coptic grievances in Egypt and the imperative need to open the Coptic file and draw it wide open in complete transparency, with no hesitation. They are...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 10, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that President Mubarak and Pope Shenouda did not discuss, in their recent meeting, the issue of the status of Copts in Egypt or that of sectarian strife but just discussed the general problems of the country.
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 8, 2001
Based on the suggestions of Copts, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria studied new procedures to limit Coptic visits to monasteries all over Egypt.
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 6, 2001
Bishop Saweris, the confession father of the expelled monk, said that he confessed his sins three months before he was expelled in 1996. The bishop said he tried to reform him after he became suspicious about his behavior. When failed to reform him, he expelled him from the monastic order and...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 3, 2001
Tomorrow the Egyptian Administrative Court is to end the controversy about Al-Nabaa newspaper. It will also look into two cases filed by Mamdouh Mahran. In the first he tries to override a verbal ruling by the Minister of Interior prohibiting the press house from operating and in the second he...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 6, 2001
Pope Shenouda described the way President Mubarak handled the crisis as very wise and described the reaction of the Journalists’ Syndicate as brave and strict. He thanked the Muslims of Egypt who supported the Copts during their crisis, the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar and the Mufti.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 4, 2001
Pope Shenouda’s secretary denied news about the pope suffering from a blood clot in his foot and this being the reason for his absence from the Wednesday lecture for two weeks. He justified his absence by saying it was to calm the youths’ spirits after the events caused by Al-Nabaa.