Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 4, 1998
A conference condemning religious fanaticism took place yesterday in Sohag Governorate under the slogan of ’National Unity’. The Writers’ Association organized the conference. A large number of writers and artists were present in addition to Muslim and Christian religious leaders.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 4, 1998
Information Minister Safwat El-Sherif condemned the campaign against Egypt by the foreign media concerning allegations that Christians are being persecuted. In an interview published in a London newspaper yesterday, El-Sherif announced that these allegations were unfounded and rely on fabricated...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 4, 1998
Dr. Osama el-Baz, the president’s chief foreign policy advisor, clarified that what had happened in the Al-Kushh village in Sohag was not a sectarian conflict but was related to police behavior.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 4, 1998
A statement has been issued by Mohamad Al-Tahawy, Governor of Assiut, that there have been decisions issued in keeping with the President’s order for the restoration of 12 churches in the governorate.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 1998
Dar Al-Ifta, the state’s religious authority which issues legal decrees, received Christians seeking advice on matters of inheritance and wills.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 1998
Dr. Nasr Farid Wasel, the state’s Mufti, denounced the allegations of the British Sunday Telegraph, confirming it is perverted and could not be believed. A country like Egypt that respects all heavenly religions cannot commit persecution or religious discrimination.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 1998
Ninety eighty percent of the US Senate voted for the religious persecution law which forces the White House to take measures against countries accused of practicing any form of religious prosecution. Despite objections to the law while it was being discussed [in Congress] earlier this year, the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 1998
British Lord David Alton has recently joined the campaign against Egypt appointing himself a spokesman for Sohag’s Copts and making rude accusations against Egyptian officials.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 1998
A report presented to the Wafd party says that some extremists were behind the escalation of the issue [having filed misleading reports] to foreign bodies and calls for the withdrawal of Egyptian nationality from Egyptians abroad who work with foreign bodies against Egypt’s national security.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 1998
A group of 80 Copts have authorized an Egyptian lawyer to sue the Sunday Telegraph for