Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2000
"Giving statements requires being logical and fluent, and everything that lacks reason and does not reveal a truth is not a statement, even in signed by a hundred "intellectuals"!!, whether headed or not headed by Said Al-Naggar [Al-Naggar means the carpenter], the blacksmith, or even Said the car-...
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: Thursday, February 24, 2000
... In an international atmosphere that is tense because of the work of some international powers to trample over the concept of sovereignty of some states on their lands, and their work to admit the principle of interference to protect religious minorities from persecution, these religious...
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: Tuesday, February 15, 2000
The full, published text of the EOHR’s Special Report on the Al-Kosheh incident.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
In the article of Mr. Said Abdel-Khaleq in Al-Wafd dated January 19, 2000, reporting on an interview with him Father Makarious Youssef found some statements attributed to him, which he says he did not make. He responds in this article.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
Egypt will receive this week His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Catholics number 300 thousand citizens in Egypt. In spite of their different denominations, not one of them came out to claim that there is persecution in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
The Coptic Union that represents a group of fanatic emigrant Copts in America failed to perform a march in front of the American Foreign Ministry. In the light of the faxes and the letters before the march, everything that was done was expected. However, it was not expected that they would seek...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
On my last visit to Egypt, I noticed a genuine national revolution against religious fanaticism and terrorism, a revolution against exploiting religion that calls for love and peace. In Egypt we find love between neighbors and love of the unity of a nation in which equality in opportunities has...