Date of source: Tuesday, August 1, 2000
In Al-Midan of May 9, 2000, accountant Pulais Basili wrote an article, entitled "The Statement of the Minister of Justice and Al-Khula for Christians". In this article, he accused the church of controlling the lives of its sons and daughters and of bearing the responsibility of their fallen...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 1, 2000
In this article, the Revd. Dr. John H. Watson comments on Adel Hamouda’s article on father Matta el-Meskeen that was published in Al-Arabi of July 23, 2000. Watson believes Hamouda’s article "is an extraordinarily interesting article for all who are concerned with the life of the Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 2, 2000
The coming Parliamentary elections carry the title "Copts in Parliamentary elections 2000". All the expectations confirm the increase in the number of participants either as candidates or voters in the coming elections.
Date of source: Monday, July 31, 2000
The evening of last Thursday was an evening of strong national feelings. On that evening the heads of Islam and Christianity were gathering in the Marqosia church to celebrate the anniversary of the coming of the Holy Family to Egypt. The Grand Imam of the Azhar and Pope Shenouda III, who were...
Date of source: Sunday, July 30, 2000
An exhibition, under the title of "Al-Andalus and Europe", is inaugurated at the university of Bonne in Germany. It discusses the effects of the Islamic civilization on Western civilization and how the former enriched the European culture and formed the current cultural and scientific western...
Date of source: Saturday, July 29, 2000
The Minister of Culture called on Pope Shenouda to inspect the Hanging Church and to follow up the restoration of the church. The Minister said that the priest of the church interfered in some matters that should be decided upon by archeologists.
Date of source: Friday, July 28, 2000
Al-Akhbar investigated the problems regarding the restoration of the Hanging Church.
The Minister of Culture, Farouq Hosni, said that the Hanging Church is one of the most prominent and important Coptic monuments and an important element in the complex of religious buildings in Old Cairo. It is...
Date of source: Saturday, July 29, 2000
Subtitles: ° Europe expels peaceful immigrants and here we allow them to exhaust our utilities and attack us. ° An incident in the Ahmed Said Street, Abbassia, a quarter of Cairo, tolls the warning bells for the refugee and immigrant problem in Egypt. ° They harass our women and smoke bango [a kind...
Date of source: Friday, July 28, 2000
The Court of State Security Misdemeanor in Giza, explained, yesterday, the reasons behind its sentence in the case of the writer Salah El-Din Mohsen. Mohsen is accused of exploiting religion in his writings in order to promote extremist ideas aiming to mislead society. The court sentenced the...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 2, 2000
Akher Sa’a ran an interview with the new undersecretary of the Azhar, Sheikh Mahmoud Ashour. He said that the task of the undersecretary of the Azhar, according to the law, is to act on behalf of Sheikh of the Azhar during his absence, to assist him in his tasks and to carry out the missions...