Date of source: Sunday, September 7, 2003
Some teachers overstep their educational role and encroach upon the domain of faith and creeds, holding undue comparisons between religions, and ridiculing the Christian faith in front of Christian students or after they have asked these students to leave the classroom
Date of source: Sunday, March 26, 2006
Problems for those attempting to obtain computerized identity cards before the 2007 deadline.
Date of source: Sunday, April 13, 2003
Priests as well as sheikhs and imams have always been exempted from paying taxes. However, a recently issued decree by the Taxation Authority stipulates that the sum collected by priests in return for the religious services they perform in churches and for registering marriage contracts are subject...
Date of source: Sunday, March 16, 2003
The author comments on the court ruling in Al-Kosheh case that convicted only two persons from among 96 defendants.
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2003
The Church of the Virgin Mary in the village of al-Munshaa alKobra has been trying to obtain a building license for an old age home attached to it. However, the authorities deal with the building as a church building and not as an ordinary building. Thus the project should go along the road...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 to Sunday, August 21, 2005
Today I go back to a problem which I tackled on several occasions during the past months in Watani’s ‘Problems on Hold’ series, and which concerns complaints from readers against the Civil Register Authority (CRA).
Date of source: Sunday, August 7, 2005
Is Egypt a police State? The question is frequently raised at home and abroad. Since we are on the threshold of all-encompassing reforms, especially on the political level, the issue warrants candid, transparent discussion.
Date of source: Sunday, July 31, 2005
For the second time in less than one year, the hand of black terror struck at Sinai—last week in Sharm al-Sheikh and last October in Taba. Since the bloody terrorist attack on Hatshepsut temple in Luxor in 1997, Egypt had enjoyed a period of relative calm, and we had come to feel ourselves immune...
Date of source: Sunday, July 24, 2005
In January 2002, Bishop Marqus of Shubra al-Kheima, purchased a 1351-square-metre plot of land for the construction of a church and a building to house the social service activities the church planned to offer to some 400 families who lived in the vicinity. The land was officially registered in...
Date of source: Sunday, July 17, 2005
A recent letter from Watani reader Mr. Nabil Mahmoud Wali took me back to the Problems on Hold file. Under the title “Egypt’s maligned Copts,” Mr Wali wrote on a taboo issue—that of religious conversion in Egypt