Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 15, 2000
One of the four charges against Saad Eddin Ibrahim is misusing the European Commission funding of programs administered by the Ibn Khaldoun Center and by HODA (League of Egyptian women voters). That is why the European Commission issued a statement to explain the nature of its support for the Ibn...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 30, 2000
Dr. Samir Marcos, associate secretary-general of the Middle East Council of Churches, describes the importance of late Metropolitan Athanasius for Egypt. He describes him foremost as a pioneer in development from a Christian perspective in Egypt.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 27, 2000
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd delivered this lecture upon accepting the prestigious Cleveringa professorial chair at Leiden University in The Netherlands with the request to teach justice, freedom and responsibility and especially the freedom of religion and liberty of conscience. The lecture discussed the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 8, 2000
Pope John Paul II encourages the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land and the leaders of the Christian communities, to renew their efforts to ensure that relationships between all are inspired by mutual respect, in humility and trust. He also appeals to Jewish and...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 13, 2000
No formal notification of the indictments or the court date has been sent to any of the defendants in the Case of Saad Eddin Ibrahim. However, persistent inquiry has confirmed that the case is indeed on the court docket for November 18th, 2000. A number of international organizations, including...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2, 2000
The article explains how cases come to trial in Egypt. It also gives an idea about the Criminal Court Systems and Criminal Law in The State Security Courts. The administration of criminal law is more complicated than the administration of civil or administrative law. If the Niyaba [prosecution]...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2000
The annual feast of the Holy Virgin in Deir Rafat in the Palestinian territories usually draws 3000 to 4000 pilgrims. However, this year the number was not more than 300-400 people only, due to the actual situation, especially because all the Christian Palestinians from the Palestinian territories...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2000
Father Abusahlia criticized the Jerusalem Post for its article about "Pat Boone coming on Christian solidarity visit" (JP 27 October 2000). This article was meant to depict the solidarity of millions and millions of Christians world-wide toward Israel. Abusahlia writes there are "scores of letters...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 27, 2000
In response to reports from Israel that Palestinian Christians are fleeing the areas under control by the Palestinian Authority, presumably out of fear for Muslims, Drs. Hulsman found that it may be good to tell the story of Father Philloumenos from the Greek Orthodox church about Jacob’s well.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2000
On October 25, the Jerusalem Post published an article about hundreds of Palestinian Christians fleeing the Palestinian territories. An Israeli spokesman referred in this regard to a radical sermon of Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya. This article, like the sermon of the Palestinian preacher,...