Date of source: Sunday, July 15, 2001
Ra’afat Al-Mehi’s script "Hurghada...the Magic of Love," deals with the issue of mixed marriages between Muslim men and Christian women. He expresses the opinion that the restrictions religions put on marriage are nothing more than stupidity practiced by priests and sheikhs and that to solve the...
Date of source: Thursday, July 12, 2001
Coptic societies have been dedicating all their efforts to an international media campaign claiming they are persecuted despite the support they receive from the Egyptian government, the rejection of the Egyptian public of the article in al-Nabaa and the trial of its editor-in-chief in the court of...
Date of source: Thursday, July 19, 2001
[This article is a follow-up of another article about the same subject. RNSAW, 2001, week 26A, art. 26] Bishop Dimitrious and priests in Malawi strongly deny the claims of the Australian Coptic Association Youth Branch that four girls from Malawi had been kidnapped.
Date of source: Thursday, July 12, 2001
The American Evangelical church praised the religious freedom Christians enjoy in Egypt.
The Supreme Council of the Evangelical Church expressed the church’s worries about the harm the US Commission for International Religious Freedom may cause as a result of the investigations it makes in some...
Date of source: Friday, July 20, 2001
The RNSAW sent the translated article of al-Usbua with a request for more information to the Library of Congress. Mr. Mike Newman ran a text search of both the Bill Text and Congressional Record for "Egypt newspaper," and found nothing relevant. Does the memorandum mentioned by al-Usbua exist? If...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2001
Thirty members of the American Congress signed a memorandum that advocates making one of the Egyptian local newspapers specialize in representing the rights of Egyptian Christians and highlighting their opinions regarding Egyptian internal affairs.
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2001
Coptic writer Sadeq Aziz expressed the opinion that the Islamic Shari’a does not contradict Christianity and that most of what it contains agrees with Moses’ law. He added that Christianity does not have any positive laws and that the teachings of Jesus Christ cannot be applied as laws governing a...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 10, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that President Mubarak and Pope Shenouda did not discuss, in their recent meeting, the issue of the status of Copts in Egypt or that of sectarian strife but just discussed the general problems of the country.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 10, 2001
The end of July is set as the date for ruling in the hisba case filed by lawyer Nabih Al-Wahish against Nawal Al-Sa’adawi to separate her from her husband. Al-Wahish stressed the importance of hearing the Mufti’s opinion on Al-Sa’adawi’s statement to Al-Midan and the testimony of the journalist who...
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2001 to Friday, July 20, 2001
The author believes that the "repented actresses" conference held in Saudi Arabia is a conspiracy against Egypt and a plan targeting Egyptian art. These former Egyptian actresses are becoming the most dangerous weapon used to enact this plan.