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.
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
This article gives some of the historical background to the disagreement between the churches covering the Council of Chalcedon, and then the Council of Ephesus in 428 AD when the Patriarch of Constantinople stated that Mary was not holy and that she was only the mother of Jesus, not more...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
The question that Copts are asking now is whether the meeting of Pope John Paul II with Pope Shenouda will end or at least quicken the ending of the conflict between the Orthodox and the Catholic Churches. The disagreement goes back to more than 1500 years ago. It centers on a main issue, which is...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
Christians in Egypt constitute more than twenty-seven denominations. The Coptic Orthodox is the majority denomination, followed by Coptic Catholics and then Evangelicals who have several denominations. There is just a difference in belief between these denominations, it is not a conflict or a...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 1, 1999
Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of the Episcopal British Church stressed his belief in the importance of building the strongest possible relations between the Islamic and the Christian leaders.
Date of source: Friday, November 26, 1999
George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, announced that there is nothing that proves that Christians in Egypt are persecuted.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 1999
Dr. George Carey, the archbishop of Canterbury and the head of the Episcopal Church had been invited by the Grand Sheik of the Azhar and spoke about religious tolerance between Islam and Christianity.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 1999
The Archbishop of Canterbury will meet Pope Shenouda III and the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi. He will give a lecture at the Azhar on Islamic and Christian tolerance.
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
The RNSAW gave a summary of both Rose el-Yousef articles in RNSAW, week 28, edition July 9-15, 1999. Since several readers asked for the full text that text is given in this issue together with comments from Evangelical Egyptian church leaders.
Wa’el Lotfi writes about the opposition of Egypt’s...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
Pope Shenouda expressed his worry about a new phenomena which is spreading in the Protestant and Orthodox Churches. This phenomena is the spread of the Protestant missionaries inside the Orthodox churches. They are trying to convert the Orthodox youth to the Evangelical denomination. This is a...