Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
The National [Democratic] Party has started a series of wide contacts with many patriotic personalities among Copts in order to nominate them in the lists of the party in the coming elections.
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
The Pope of the Vatican John Paul II declared that his program for the third millennium is based on three principal points:
First, repentance. This means self-criticism for the Church’s mistakes, which were committed during the past periods.
Second, the attempts to unify the churches that belong to...
Date of source: Saturday, January 29, 2000 to Friday, February 4, 2000
Subtitles: The pope meets with the president, Sheikh of the Azhar and Pope Shenouda. A mass to be held in the covered hall and another one in the garden of Saint Katherine’s monastery
Amr Moussa, the [Egyptian] Foreign Minister met with the ambassador of the Vatican last Wednesday night to discuss...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 2, 2000
In his speeches in the book: "Pope Shenouda, Live and Religion" Pope Shenouda defines his attitude towards several cases that interest every Egyptian. Pope Shenouda says that America is the traditional and guaranteed friend, but its friendship with the Arabs is temporary, it might change or vanish...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 2, 2000
Foreigners have always tried to intervene in the affairs of Copts, but Copts were the first to refuse this interference. Since the era of Isma’il, we find that the ruler and the government dealt with all Egyptians alike. Copts entered the Shura Council then elected. Egypt became united, citizenship...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
"... The truth is, that religious dialogue forces the two parties to attack and defend. They defend against each attempt to falsify their religion and defend their beliefs in order to spread them and convince the other party with them. If we truly want to establish a real dialogue, then we have to...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
The reader Gamal Moussa Al-Darwi writes in response to two letters by two Coptic brothers who attacked Al-Usboa, accusing it of fanaticism.
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
... The Copts are also suffering from the strict orders of the Orthodox Church. Therefore, many Copts have converted to Catholicism or Evangelicalism because the Orthodox Church refused modernism and would not allow its children to move freely or express their opinions frankly.
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
There is no religion on earth that has not got extremists. It is not bad to have extremists in Christianity or Islam whether in Egypt or in any other country. But what is really bad is not to pay any attention to these extremists and feel afraid of confronting them. Islamic extremism failed to find...
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
Several times many reports have been published about persecution of Copts in Egypt. Non-governmental organizations took these reports and published them as if they were facts. These reports expose a question, which needs an answer. What is the reality of these organizations, and what are their...