Date of source: Sunday, September 5, 1999
The accident of Beni Suef caused the death of 30 young Christian men and women and 11 were injured. The bishop suggests that the suitable compensation for the families of the killed people would be building a church in Samalout.
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 1999
Egypt has been a target of malicious media assaults from different parts of the world for so long. Mass media in some countries make use of any incident that might take place in Egypt and make big stories out of them, thus attempting to disgrace the image of Egypt in the eyes of the whole world....
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Ever since the case first broke the news last fall, the response from the government has been uniform: No one was tortured at Al Koshh. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when, after a brief investigation that didn’t even involve the questioning of witnesses, prosecutors declined to bring charges...
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 1999
The prosecutor-general of Sohag decided to reopen the investigations in the incidents of Al-Koshh. 200 Copts presented their complaints to the new prosecutor in which they were asking him to reopen the investigations in the cases of torture by policemen after two Christian men had been killed in...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
A special report by Drs. Cornelis Hulsman on the attack on the Coptic Orthodox priest Father Stephanous of al-Maḥallā al-Kubrā, based on personal visits and interviews with the priest himself, close associates, the security authorities and others. Also included is an analysis of the early Egyptian...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Since the Egyptian media have frequently referred to the press conference on Christian girls allegedly being kidnapped the RNSAW decided to present here the full transcript of the discussion which took place in New York. The discussion was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union who had...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 1999
The author proposes to built a church for the 31 victims of the bus accident.
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
31 young people were killed in a 24 July accident. The accident was the fourth major crash on Upper Egyptian highways this month. Egypt has the highest highway fatality rate of any country in the world that reports such statistics.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 11, 1999
All the Muslim and Christian religious leaders rejected the incident and described it by being a criminal act. Some of the official sources said the criminal is a Christian. Others say the objective was to rob the priest. Some foreign organizations start collecting information about attacking the...