Date of source: Saturday, October 30, 2004
Some Christian fatwas are the same as those issued by extremist Muslims. In fact, such fatwas cause sectarian strife among Christian denominations themselves. Eleven priests attacked the Egyptian movie Baheb El-Sima [I love Cinema] and accused it of insulting Christianity. This, in turn, led some...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
The Coptic Church announced its new initiative to support dialogue among the three Christian denominations: Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant. Pope Shenouda held a special celebration for one of the biggest Protestant institutions working in Egypt, Dar Al-Kitab Al-Moqaddas [Bible Society]. This...
Date of source: Monday, July 5, 2004
Some people believe that the issue of the loyalty and national affiliation of non-Orthodox Christians in Egypt, Catholics and Protestants, is questionable, especially with the different attitudes of these denominations towards political action.
We emphasize that all [Egyptian] Christina, the...
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2001
The Kurds and Berbers are Muslims who joined Islam with the Arabs. The fall of the Islamic caliphate left space for nationalism to flourish and its replacement opened a gap between the Arabs and the Kurds. The Islamic way of co-existence between Arabs and Kurds is the solution to all the problems...
Date of source: Saturday, June 9, 2001 to Friday, June 15, 2001
Catholic father Rafiq Greish, Orthodox archpriest Salib Matta, and Protestant reverend Ikram Lamai responded to Rose El-Youssef’s article "seizing an extremist Christian group" The latter two did not restrict their arguments to the Adventists, but discussed the Catholic Church and popes. The author...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Babylon’s Patriarch for the Chaldean Catholics in Iraq and the world said that Baghdad will host the Fifth Christian Conference, which will be attended by religious figures from all over the world.
Date of source: Friday, March 2, 2001
The Catholic Patriarch of Egypt pointed out that there is a difference between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox one concerning dealing with the issue of Al-Quds [Jerusalem]; the Orthodox Church rejects visits to Jerusalem considering it as a kind of normalization [of relations with Israel]....
Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2000
Hulsman interviewed Dr. Maurice Asad, former associate secretary-general of the Middle East Council of Churches, who knew Bishop Athanasius from before he was consecrated as a monk and father Dr. Christiaan van Nispen about their experiences with Bishop Athanasius. Dr. Asad described bishop...
Date of source: Monday, February 21, 2000
Next Thursday, Pope John Paul II, the Pope of the Vatican will be arriving to Egypt. Due to this occasion, we have asked what are the Catholic problems and concerns that await the great Pope of Rome? What do they want him to do in the coming period? The answer came to confirm the fact that what...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
Pope Shenouda will not attend the Mass that Pope John Paul II will pray in the covered hall. The reason is that the rituals of the Mass are different between the Catholic and the Orthodox rites. It is expected that Pope Shenouda will send a representative to the Mass.