Date of source: Friday, July 13, 2001
The author received many letters comparing the story Al-Nabaa published about the expelled monk and the contents of "A banquet for Seaweed," "The Formation Period" and "Yathrib Community," which are believed to disdain Islam. His conclusion was that the law prohibits scorning religions and that is...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
Bishop Saweris, the confession father of the expelled monk, said that he confessed his sins three months before he was expelled in 1996. The bishop said he tried to reform him after he became suspicious about his behavior. When failed to reform him, he expelled him from the monastic order and...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
Pope Shenouda described the way President Mubarak handled the crisis as very wise and described the reaction of the Journalists’ Syndicate as brave and strict. He thanked the Muslims of Egypt who supported the Copts during their crisis, the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar and the Mufti.
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2001
The writer believes that the demonstrations by thousands of Coptic youths in the Patriarchate, protesting about what Al-Nabaa published, should not be considered only in the light of Al-Nabaa disaster. He compared between the problem the "Banquet for Seaweed" caused and that caused by the story of...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2001
Three million Christians and Muslims gathered on the western [Nile] bank in Assiut to celebrate the Virgin mulid. Some of the visitors were asked if they were affected by what was published on the expelled monk. They answered that nothing can affect their love for the monastery.
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
Nabih Al-Wahesh, attorney for Al-Nabaa paper, said that Al-Nabaa will be back as of Sunday. He added that the weekly issue is being prepared and that the military ruler did not shut down the press house, but ordered confiscation of Al-Nabaa’s June 17 issue, and Akher Khabar’s June 18 issue.
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2001 to Saturday, July 7, 2001
The lawyers who first attacked Al- Nabaa have now changed places and started fabricating reasons to justify the publication of such indecent pictures on the premise that publishing them was quite helpful to the church. Some Coptic lawyers found it a good opportunity to get closer when speaking on...
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2001
Egyptians exercise extreme patience when their rights are usurped or when they fall under oppression. However, if matters are related to their faith, they will fiercely protect their resort of last refuge. That was why the fury of the young Coptic men and women who gathered was so fierce. They did...
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2001 to Friday, July 6, 2001
The expelled monk made a terrible mistake whether he was, at this time, defrocked or not, this is not the issue. His being a monk doesn’t imply anything against Christianity because religion is religion, and humans are humans. The journalist also made a terrible mistake. He fabricated a lot of...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Fahmi Howeidi believes that anger ruined the right way of handling the case of the expelled monk. Instead of regarding it as an attempt to attack the public system, violating the traditions of the journalism profession, it was regarded as a matter concerning only Copts. The angry people did not...