Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2005
Sawt al-Umma publishes the full text of an email sent to the editor commenting on Muhammad al-Bāz’s article last week on Pope Shenouda’s handling of the most recent incidents of sectarian violence.
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2005
My father named me Muhammad Najīb after two of his colleagues; Muhammad [a Muslim] and Najīb [a Christian]. I have never regarded people as Muslims and Christians; we are one entity united with love and brotherhood.
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2005
We [Egyptians] have faced Islamic extremism for many years. People attempting to face Islamic extremism, were accused of takfīr [unbelief] by a myriad of lawyers who
were filing lawsuits before different courts against any opinion, headline or personality they may not like.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2005
General Prosecutor Māhir ‘Abd al- Wāhid issued an order for the release of the 11 most recently accused in the incidents of the Cathedral on bail of EGP 300 each.
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2005
Egyptian Prosecutor General Judge Māhir Abd al-Wāhid is due to order the release of 11 Copts held for investigation on the issue of Wafā’ Costantine’s.
Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2005
The love that binds us Egyptians – both Muslims and Copts – should be exploited to achieve peaceful coexistence and to manage the crises which are bound to erupt every now and then.
Thus, as we stand on the threshold of a new year, and as our country proceeds toward economic reform and looks...
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2001 to Friday, August 17, 2001
More than 3000 Copts demonstrated in the church of Luxor, asking for the return of Bishop Amonius, the Bishop of Luxor, whom the pope deposed more than a year ago. They objected to the pope’s oral decision not to mention his name in the mass prayers.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Nagy George is very upset about the way some US Copts write about Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt. He commented on an unpublished letter of a Canadian Copt to the editor of Al-Ahali. George stressed that Copts are not a minority in Egypt and it is the role played by emigrant Copts that pushes...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2001
An emigrant Copt sent a letter to the editor-in-chief of Al-Ahali, complaining about an article by the Christian columnist Nagy George, who criticized Michael Meunier for writing lies in a press release claiming that the Egyptian police had fired rubber bullets against an exaggerated large number...
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2001 to Friday, July 27, 2001
The bishop for youth stressed that the attitude of the police towards those who went onto the streets and tried to cause damage or confront the security was the same in the cases of the Coptic Youths’ demonstration against Al-Nabaa and the Azhar students’ demonstration against the "Banquet for...