Date of source: Friday, May 15, 1998
Mohamed Abdel-Mone’m sees the raising issue of Coptic persecution as part of a larger international conspiracy against the Middle East.
Date of source: Friday, May 15, 1998
Pope Shenouda refuses to let the church cooperate in the broadcast of the Cypriot Christian satellite channel Sat 7 that is suspected to be Zionist.
Date of source: Monday, May 18, 1998
[Editor in April 2002: This response was written for the RNSAW and at the same time offered for publication to an Egyptian publication. We can no longer trace in our archive which publication this was] Dr. Yehia Ismael Halboush claimed that Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi judges by double standards as he...
Date of source: Saturday, May 16, 1998
Salah Montasir thanks the minister of education for banning the Rodinson’s book and publishes a letter from the minister to himself.
Date of source: Saturday, May 16, 1998
Different scholars and men of religion give their opinions on the issue of teaching Maxim Rodinson.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 13, 1998
The author calls for the banning of a book on the prophet Mohammed by Maxim Rodinson that is taught in AUC.
Date of source: Sunday, May 10, 1998
The author objects the decision (mentioned in a previous issue of the RNSAW) of not praying for a priest who passed away because that is not in line with the church-law.
Date of source: Monday, May 11, 1998
More than 200 Copts from Assiut gathered inside the Cathedral in Abbasiya last Monday to announce to the Pope their objection to separating a part of the bishopric of Manfalout headed by Bishop Antounious.
Date of source: Monday, May 11, 1998
Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi says the personal status law does not contradict the religious doctrine in any way. The application of the law is, however, the duty of the judge who may use his own judgment.
Date of source: Friday, May 8, 1998
The declaration of the Sheik Al-Azhar that Bait Al-Ta’a, The institution of forcing the wife who has left the house of her husband to return to it, does not exist in Islamic theology, angered a lot of Muslim scholars.