Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 25, 2005
Obituary of Otto Meinardus, eminent Coptologist and prolific writer who died at the age of 79 on September 18, 2005.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 11, 2004 to الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 14, 2004
How does one write a polemic that’s non-polemical, a manifesto that’s not manifestly so? With Christians Observed, the Revd. Dr John Watson, a priest in the Church of England and frequent contributor to Watani, has managed to answer the question.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 14, 2005
The exaggeration about the comparison between the role of traditional Islam and the Coptic Orthodox Church is simple. It is not the difference in attitude but in numbers/statistics. Copts simply do not have the numbers to seek power as Islamists do.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 7, 2005
Father Basilius of the Monastery of Makarius responds to the articles of Dr. John Watson [week21] and Amīr Mīlād [week 22] about the Wādī al-Rayyān, providing more details, showing the hierarchical structure of the church that does not accept individual monks going their own way.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 28, 2005
Interview with Amīr Mīlād, a Christian desert guide, about the monks in the Wādī al-Rayyān. Amīr Mīlād adds information to the article of Dr. John Watson in AWR, 2005, week 20.
Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 12, 2002
Bishop Kenneth Cragg spoke on April 10 in the Faculty of Languages and Translation at the Azhar University.The Bishop said both Islam and Christianity acknowledge the greatness of God.
Students asked the bishop about his opinion about the Palestinians. Some of them asked in a polemical fashion...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 21, 2002
Anglican Bishop Mounir’s views on using the term ’persecution’. This issue also describes problems between an Egyptian army unit and Patmos Land, a project of Bishop Botros.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 3, 2003
Stereotypes about people from other groups are false and misleading. Being in Egypt, one is continuously reminded of Western biases and the widespread conviction that the West has targeted Islam, that Western Christians are making an effort to destroy Islam and that; in fact, we are witnessing a...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 15, 2005
In the autumn of 1981 Christian students in London were praying for Egypt. They remembered the dramatic assassination by Muslim extremists of Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt. There were daily prayers concerning the house arrest of the Coptic Christian Patriarch of Egypt
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 2, 2005
A terrorist attack in Sharm Al-Sheikh was immediately reported on Egyptian TV.
Comment on an article by Dr. Larry Levine that shows much distrust for motives of Christian Evangelical support for Israel.