Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2001
President Mubarak warned against the consequences of a conflict between Muslims and Copts, and stressed the guarantees that the Egyptian law should offer for freedom of belief. In his meeting with the parliamentary members of the [ruling] National Democratic Party, he discussed the conflict...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
The Egyptian press coverage of Al-Nabaa covers areas such as the public’s opinion of the paper, the Virgin Mary mulid [pilgrimage festival] at Al-Muharraq monastery, plus interviews with the Coptic youth who demonstrated in front of the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo and the lawyer for the lady who was...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2001
Three million Christians and Muslims gathered on the western [Nile] bank in Assiut to celebrate the Virgin mulid. Some of the visitors were asked if they were affected by what was published on the expelled monk. They answered that nothing can affect their love for the monastery.
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
Nabih Al-Wahesh, attorney for Al-Nabaa paper, said that Al-Nabaa will be back as of Sunday. He added that the weekly issue is being prepared and that the military ruler did not shut down the press house, but ordered confiscation of Al-Nabaa’s June 17 issue, and Akher Khabar’s June 18 issue.
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2001 to Friday, July 6, 2001
In the seminar Rose El-Youssef held to discuss the crisis of Al-Nabaa, Nawal Al-Sa’adawi wondered why the tabloids are growing. Actor Nour Sharif said restrictions that do not bring sensitive points between denominations to light are needed. President of the Egyptian book authority believes that...
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2001 to Saturday, July 7, 2001
The lawyers who first attacked Al- Nabaa have now changed places and started fabricating reasons to justify the publication of such indecent pictures on the premise that publishing them was quite helpful to the church. Some Coptic lawyers found it a good opportunity to get closer when speaking on...
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2001
Egyptians exercise extreme patience when their rights are usurped or when they fall under oppression. However, if matters are related to their faith, they will fiercely protect their resort of last refuge. That was why the fury of the young Coptic men and women who gathered was so fierce. They did...
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2001 to Friday, July 6, 2001
The expelled monk made a terrible mistake whether he was, at this time, defrocked or not, this is not the issue. His being a monk doesn’t imply anything against Christianity because religion is religion, and humans are humans. The journalist also made a terrible mistake. He fabricated a lot of...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Fahmi Howeidi believes that anger ruined the right way of handling the case of the expelled monk. Instead of regarding it as an attempt to attack the public system, violating the traditions of the journalism profession, it was regarded as a matter concerning only Copts. The angry people did not...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2001
Adel Hammouda expressed the opinion that while the church announced that it expelled young priest Daniel who attracted Coptic youth with his modern way of interpreting the Bible and declared he did not follow the church’s education, it did not go public with expelling the monk of Al-Moharraq...