Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
Though some shops damaged in the riots in Al-Kosheh suffered damaged amounting to 200,000 EgP a ministerial decision has limited the maximum compensation that any individual who suffered loss in the riots will receive from the Egyptian government to 1,000 EgP.
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
"The Statement of the Hundred" that was published in the same place last week was divided into three parts: a call to the nation, recommendations to the officials, and a list with the hundred names who had signed this statement. Starting from this week, we will screen the reactions to the...
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 26, 2000 to Friday, March 3, 2000
The CNN American Net broadcast a show because of the visit of Pope John Paul II to Egypt. Throughout the show that was entitled "Question and answer" which was presented by Riz Khan, the relationship between Muslims and Christians in Egypt and the effect of the Pope’s visit on these relationships...
Date of source: Friday, February 25, 2000
The second part of the discussions of Al-Amal [Labor] party about the Egyptian people in the light of the Al-Kosheh incidents and the general discussion of Muslim-Christian relations in Egyptian society.
Date of source: Friday, February 25, 2000
... we asked the professors of the Azhar and Islamic scholars for their opinion on what Al-Banna says. Their rage and objections against what he said surprised us. They made it clear that the apostate’s punishment is death and that a Muslim has no freedom to leave his religion.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Yesterday, The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights [EOHR] expressed its disappointment at the decision issued by the State Security Prosecutor to refer Hafez Abu-Saeda, Secretary General of the organization, to the Supreme State Security Court (emergency) to be tried for breaching article No. 1...
Date of source: Monday, February 21, 2000
Next Thursday, Pope John Paul II, the Pope of the Vatican will be arriving to Egypt. Due to this occasion, we have asked what are the Catholic problems and concerns that await the great Pope of Rome? What do they want him to do in the coming period? The answer came to confirm the fact that what...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
This visit is considered an answer to the generous invitation that President Mubarak gave to Pope John Paul II. Father Rafiq Graish, pastor of Saint Kyrollos Church for the Roman Catholics and the responsible of the media center that is assigned to supervise the preparations of the visit said: "...