Date of source: Tuesday, November 2, 1999
Last Thursday, both Pope Shenouda and Dr. Sayed Tantawi received the British Caravan to Support the Iraqi People, headed by George Gallaway, vice-president of the Committee of External Affairs in the British House of Commons. Both Pope Shenouda and sheikh Tantawi declared their sympathy to this...
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
Iraqi Christians want Pope John Paul II to visit their country and speak out against the embargo, but the United States and other countries leading the sanctions against Iraq would just as soon he stay home.
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
Never over all the years that I have visited this country have I seen Iraq in such miserable state as I saw it last month. During the eight years of brutal fighting with Iran, Iraqi media officials kept views of their people’s pain and suffering confined to hospitals and graveyards. Today, after...
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
Iraqi Catholics, hoping for relief from sanctions, look forward to a proposed visit by Pope John Paul II. If there’s any hope among Iraqi Christians that things could take a turn for the better, it’s pinned on an upcoming visit by Pope John Paul II.
Date of source: Sunday, December 27, 1998
The Gama’at al-Islamiya calls Muslims to fight the US in retaliation for its air strikes against Iraq.
Date of source: Monday, December 21, 1998
Gamal Asa’ad Abdelmalik preached from the pulpit of the Azhar and criticized the American air raids on Iraq.
Date of source: Monday, December 21, 1998
A TV station from Qatar organized a live debate on the American Freedom of Religious Persecution Law and el-Koshh between Mustafa Bakri, editor in chief of Al-Osboa newspaper, and Maurice Sadek, president of the Center for Human Rights and National Unity.
Sadek, who defended the recently accepted...
Date of source: Thursday, September 10, 1998
The author, director of the Institute of Strategic Studies at Al Ahram criticizes Arab states for their double standards.