Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 1, 1999
Marriage among Christians in Egypt has become a time bomb that may blow up anytime to increase the disputes among Christian churches and create a crisis in the Coptic Orthodox Church. More than 44,000 Copts have obtained divorce decrees, but they are unable to get permissions for a second marriage...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 1, 1999
Last week, the Sadat City Prosecutor called for Fr. Antonios in Mari Girgis monastery, and four workers who are working in the same monastery who made a complaint against the monk. They accused him of attacking one of them with a razor blade in an attempt to rape him. The worker was wounded in his...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 1, 1999
Four persons attacked the monk. They tied his hands with ropes and chains, shaved his beard, cut his hair, forced him to take off his robe and beat him. In an official report they also accused him of trying to rape a young man.
Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 22, 1999 to الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 28, 1999
The article is an attack on the Coptic Orthodox refusal to accept the baptism of the Coptic Catholic and Coptic Evangelical churches in Egypt. However, claims are made that Orthodox priests say are factually not true. Some Orthodox priests were consulted and their comments are found in the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 16, 1999
Inside and outside the church everybody is watching. They are asking whether Pope Shenouda will give a permission for remarriage to Ghatas, as the sentence of the law stated, or he will not give it to him.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 4, 1999 to الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 17, 1999
The well-known director of the Ibn Khaldoun Institute sees the government has taken a few positive steps to improve the situation of the Copts.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 4, 1999 to الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 17, 1999
One of Egypt’s most prominent and respected social activists.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 4, 1999 to الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 17, 1999
The author spoke to Maurice Sadek. To his fellow human rights activists he's "crazy Maurice." To the government, he's a total pain in the neck. To the extremist Coptic groups in North America he's something of a hero.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 4, 1999 to الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 17, 1999
An overview of the position of Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 1, 1999
The Court of Personal Affairs in Cairo obliged Pope Shenouda to give `Id Sabhi Ghatas the permission to remarry.