Date of source: Monday, July 24, 2000
Counselor Mohammed Arafa, the head of the Technical Office of the General Prosecutor, declared that Dr. Yehia Ismail confessed that he wrote, in Al-Shaab of March 17, an article entitled "The Egyptian Khula is an American Product". In this article he uses many words and sentences that insult the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2000
Counselor Maher Abdel Wahid, Public Prosecutor, agreed to refer the case Dr. Yehia Ismail Habloush, Professor of the College of Religious Origins [’Usul el-Din] at the Azhar University, to the criminal courts, after being accused of insulting and slandering the Sheikh of the Azhar.
Date of source: Friday, July 21, 2000
This article answers a question concerning working with Jews and Christians, from the point of view of Qur’an. As for the Jews, cooperation with them is not permissible whatever the circumstances are. As for Christians, If they have been warmongering, they must be cut off. If they are other than...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 12, 2000
Father Matta Al-Maskeen succeeded in closing the curtain on one of the deepest divisions in the history of the Coptic church when he told His Excellency Pope Shenouda III on television that he would concede on the issue of the farm of the monastery of Saint Maqarios, which lies at the seventy...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 12, 2000
It was announced in Washington that a conference would be held entitled ’Christians of the Middle East ’. The idea for the conference came from an organization called ’Freedom House’. The danger of the activities the Freedom House is involved in cannot be underestimated in Washington, whether you...
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2000
Dr. Mohammed Said Tantawi, Sheikh of the Azhar, decreed that womb transplant is allowed as long the operation does not involve transplanting the womb to a woman who is related to the donor. Dr. Muhammed Bakr Isma’il, Chairman of the Department for Shari’a Law at the Azhar University, supports the...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Eleven leaders from the military wing of Al-Jihad, issued a statement in which they renewed their support for the initiative to renounce violence, which, according to them, is for their benefit and for the benefit of all the imprisoned members. They called the leaders of the group to return to...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 12, 2000
The subsidiary court of Sayida Zainab yesterday started to look at the case of sheikha Manal and her fifteen supporters, all of whom have been arrested on charges of spreading extreme ideas aiming to defame Islam and its principles. The court heard the prosecution present its case for three hours...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 19, 2000
The Supreme Court of State Security Misdemeanor listened, yesterday, to the five-hour plea of the defense lawyer, in the case of sheikha Manal and her 15 followers. In his plea, the defense lawyer asked the court to set the accused free.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 19, 2000
The arrest and detainment in full custody of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and many of his young employees, along with the search of his home and the premises of the Ibn Khaldoun Center is a tremendous blow to anyone who knows Dr. Saad Eddin or has come across the work which the Center has been involved...