Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2001
When Muslims conquered Egypt, they realized that the most dangerous issue in Egypt during the Byzantine rule was religion and interference in the Egyptian’s faith. Muslim politicians started to establish the principle declared by the Qur’an that is there is no compulsion in religion. The result was...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
Dr. Rodolph Yanney, president of the Society of Coptic Church Studies and founder and editor of Coptic Church Review in 1980, gave the RNSAW permission to bring his articles in the Copts Digest and the Coptic Daily Digest, published in 1999, together in one report describing the factors leading to...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2000
Naguib Mahfouz was dispossessed of a scholarship to France after his graduation because the head of the scholarships department thought that Mahfouz was a Copt. The author believes that this incident is strong evidence of the importance of Copts and the role they played in the modern history of...
Date of source: Friday, December 22, 2000
The author believes that publishing the photo of Virgin Mary in Al-Ahali newspaper is an action against national unity; publishing such a photo supports Christianity while it undermines Islam. It is an activity against the constitution and the law. It means that the Holy Virgin is pleased with...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 19, 2000
The idea of establishing a party representing the Brotherhood has its supporters and opponents. Prof. Rifa’at El-Said, Dr. Abu El-Ela Madi and Dr. Hossam Badrawi totally reject the idea and believe this would be a threat to society. Prof. Milad Hanna is of opinion that this is not a challenge to...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
The author comments on Fahmi Howeidi’s article about establishing an Islamic party. He expressed his surprise at the fact that Howeidi discussed the idea only from a constitutional angle but not from a political one. Howeidi’s idea that the constitution does not prohibit founding religious parties...
Date of source: Sunday, April 26, 1998
This is the full text of the summary published in Watani, April 26, 1998
Date of source: Tuesday, September 5, 2000 to Thursday, September 7, 2000
[Also Al-Wafd, September 7, 2000]
The American Department of State introduced its second annual report concerning religious freedom in many countries, including Egypt, China, Russia and the Arabic and Islamic countries. The first annual report included many claims regarding the persecution of...
Date of source: Thursday, August 31, 2000
The paper received two messages, at around the same time, from some of our Coptic brothers. The first message, which came from two engineers, Sergos Zakhari Maximous and Butros Ibrahim Saleeb, in Alexandria, was full of love towards Egypt. The other was a copy of a page from a magazine issued by...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 12, 2000
It was announced in Washington that a conference would be held entitled ’Christians of the Middle East ’. The idea for the conference came from an organization called ’Freedom House’. The danger of the activities the Freedom House is involved in cannot be underestimated in Washington, whether you...