Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 5, 1998
The Governor of Menufiya, Adly Hussein, has issued a number of decisions to restore and subsidize the churches in the governorate. The churches include the Church of Mari Gerguis in a Christian village in the district of Quesna and the Church of the Virgin Mary in Kafr Abdu district of Quesna.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 11, 1998
President Hosni Mubarak announced on Saturday that Ecuador had deported to Egypt a militant suspected of being involved in last November’s Luxor massacre in which 62 people were killed.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 11, 1998
Military prosecutors are questioning more than 50 suspects, including more than a dozen extradited by other countries, in connection with the 1995 suicide bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad which killed 16 people.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 10, 1998
Attempts were made by the wife of a current minister to pressure the university’s dean to change the regulations for the sake of a German language teacher Ulrika Aras.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 7, 1998
El-Wafd published on November 7 the full text of the statement given by Pope Shenouda.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2, 1998
The Monastery of St. Catherine is considered one of the most famous monasteries in the world, situated in Sinai where God talked to Moses. At this famous monastery is a patriotic man in both body and soul who prevented the Israeli flag from being flown on top of the monastery instead of the...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 31, 1998
Do foreign monks living in Egypt suffer persecution from people or from the government? Al-Wafd entered their world to get their opinions about what is happening.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 1998
Some claim that the customs of mausoleums and ’Mulids’ (an Egyptian custom of celebrating the birthday or death day of a deceased religious figure in Egypt) go back to the days of the Fatimid Empire. However, the truth is that these innovations go back to the days of the ancient Egyptians.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 4, 1998
Dr. Osama El-Baz announced that the material published in the foreign media concerning discrimination against Copts is out of line and lacking in truth, and that the Copts stand against the material that uses ’persecution’ to get at Egypt and weaken its stand.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 4, 1998
Suddenly, the American paper ’Boston Globe’ came up with a front page story on Persecution of Egyptian Copts by police. According to the paper, police committed brutal acts of torture, beating them up, electrocuting them, and threatening to rape women. In another development, the paper said Bishop...