Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
The Ministry of Social Affairs was forced to hire a representative for the Association (the counselor Maher Samy Youssef) and remove its head Amin Fahim for committing financial and administrative violations. ... What is really strange is the situation of the ministry because the ministry made a...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
In late 1999, religious Christians were surprised when two Catholic clergymen announced their giving away of their church positions for the sake of marriage. The story of the two priests that was considered by the Vatican a violation of monastic rules brought to the surface the issue of marriage...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
Catholics in Egypt are waiting for the visit of Pope John Paul II during the period from February 24-26. The visit represents an extraordinary event in the history of the Egyptian Catholic Church that contains seven different Catholic denominations, most prominent of which is the Catholic Copts...
Date of source: Monday, February 14, 2000
The national democratic trend faced the first wave of religious bigotry with its Islamist slogans... We boldly face the second wave of religious bigotry that is falsely relating itself to Christianity... We are astonished by the birth of a religiously bigoted stance called "The Emigrant Christian...
Date of source: Monday, February 14, 2000
Counselor Maher Abdel-Wahed, the Attorney General, answers accusations from the Canadian Coptic Association charging the State Prosecution service of being biased against Copts in the wake of Father Gibra’il Abdel-Messih’s interrogation and subsequent release on bail of 1,000 LE (about US$ 300,-).
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
At the "Quddaas Al-Arbaien" held last Thursday in the Archangel Michael Church for the spirits of those who were killed in Al-Kosheh was presided over by Bishop Wissa of Al-Balyana and Dar Al-Salaam, General Bishop Yo’annes, the delegate of His Holiness the Pope, and the secretary of the pope. A...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
The author argues that the non-implementation of the recommendations of the report by a special committee convened to look into the communal violence in Al-Khanka in 1972, the Al-Oteify report, led indirectly to the recent communal violence in Al-Kosheh, because the underlying issues were not...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
The absence of the People’s Assembly from the scene of events in the latest Al-Kosheh incidents was conspicuous as if the Assembly did not exist or made itself to be so. We have not seen one single representative forwarding an inquiry or filing a notification request or posing an expedient question...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
Because of the improper press coverage of the first incidents of Al-Kosheh, the media today hurried to cover the second incidents. As a simple Egyptian man, many questions jumped into my head...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
We have exposed during the last two weeks the defects that exist in our actual reality. We will prove these defects by the various problems and situations, which we always receive and the files of sorrows are full of them. But before that we ask this crucial question: What can we do?... This is...