Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2000
The letter of the Bishop of Deir Mawass in Minya governorate to Watani newspaper, which was published under in the article titled: "The Echoes of the Statement of the Hundred", provoked rage in the hearts of Muslims and Christians together. They protest that his narration of the matter he relates...
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2000
Watani publish a notice faxed to them from Mr. Albair Aazer Bareh, ex-member of the People’s Council of Alexandria Governorate addressed to the Egyptian State Attorney in which he attacks the Statement of the Hundred as being seditious. Watani then gives their response to this attack.
Date of source: Thursday, March 9, 2000
The seizure of Saad Zaghloul and his three companions on March 8, 1919 was the spark that started the Egyptian revolution against the British - a revolution that showed the unity of the people of Egypt. It was the unity of the Hilaal and the Cross in Jihad [holy war] and sacrifice when Muslims and...
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2000
A discussion about the significance of the meeting of Pope John Paul II with President Mubarak during the Pope’s recent visit to Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 1, 2000
... Egypt welcomed the Catholic Pope of the world with all the principles of human hospitality. What kind of expression of thanks would be adequate to its great president and its noble policemen. They performed their work perfectly, in the most organized order and the noblest expressions... The...
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2000
Five more comments (all favorable) regarding the received by Watani regarding the Statement of the Hundred are given here.
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
Talking about the emigrant Copts is a very difficult subject because the newspapers have dealt with them from one point of view and they classified them with the extremists, and traitors against their country. They had also mentioned that they were agents [for foreign powers] and so on. The truth...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000
An interview of Bishop Kyrollos William, Coptic Catholic bishop of Assiut, regarding the visit of Pope John Paul II.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
This is a statement about the recent events of Al-Kosheh. Hundreds of cultured people in Egypt signed it. These people care about the country’s concerns.
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
What is to come after the disaster of Al-Kosheh?! Every Egyptian is asking this question. Will the government’s procedures [successfully] cure the nation’s body of the virus of sectarianism?