Date of source: Monday, December 4, 2000
Father John Francis, an Anglican friar, remembers the openness, humility and humor of the late Bishop Athanasius.
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2000
A draft of a presidential decree, according to which a new law for the national institutions and associations will be issued, was prepared. It prevents national organizations from working in five fields. Two of which are carrying out an activity that discriminates between citizens because of...
Date of source: Thursday, December 7, 2000
Pope Shenouda explained in his weekly meeting in the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abassiya, Cairo, that he is very sad about the film Awan El Ward which is shown during Ramadan on Egyptian TV. He encouraged individual people to write letters of protest to the Egyptian Minister Safwat el-Sherif,...
Date of source: Monday, December 4, 2000
Egyptian authorities imposed power on a village in Minia governorate after the eruption of fights between Muslims and Copts. The Ministry of Interior issued a statement denying that this incident has any political or sectarian motives. A fight had occurred between some members of a Muslim family...
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
The author criticized Nabil Luka Babawi for his article "Copts and the participation in the political life" which he published in Al-Ahram. Babawi is of opinion that the slogan of "religion for God and the country for all" started to get credibility after being only mentioned in emotional...
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
[Kitabis: lit.: "people of the Book" i.e., Christians and Jews]
The author believes that the Coptic candidate of the Wafd, Mounir Fakhri Abdel-Nour, suffered a ridiculous attack in the name of religion by his Muslim opponent who distributed a flyer including some Qur’anic verses, aiming to distract...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 29, 2000
Islamic groups are gaining power through increasing penetration of the religious flux among people. The Muslim Brotherhood’s awareness of this fact guaranteed them continuity and helped them in achieving great success in the recent elections. People are increasingly attracted to them because of...
Date of source: Saturday, December 2, 2000
The author is of opinion that none of the parties, with the exception of the Muslim Brotherhood, benefits from the results of the elections which disclosed their real popularity and the true tendencies in society. He believes that the issues the Brotherhood intends to work for, such as canceling...
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
Through an imaginary dialogue between the author and two of his friends, he gives the pros and cons to the idea of establishing an Islamic party for the Muslim Brotherhood. While one of the friends is of opinion that announcing such a party will push the country two hundred years back in time, the...
Date of source: Friday, December 29, 2000
In a meeting of Islamic intellectuals, the Minister of Awqaf said that worshipping is more than the performance of religious rites. The Mufti promoted the idea of a Common Arabic and Islamic Market. He declared that importing any commodity that has an alternative in our Islamic and Arabic markets...