Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 1999
Egypt has been a target of malicious media assaults from different parts of the world for so long. Mass media in some countries make use of any incident that might take place in Egypt and make big stories out of them, thus attempting to disgrace the image of Egypt in the eyes of the whole world....
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
In the secular societies, religion is not considered as one of the main foundations on which the country, its constitution, and principal law are based. Accordingly, all the citizens of this country will not feel any discrimination whether they are Christians, Muslims or Jews. But if the society...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 1999
Today we are going to continue our discussion about the religious minorities, especially the Orthodox Copts. The Orthodox Copts were used for a kind of imperialistic penetration. They were considered by any occupation as a minority which had to be protected form the hands of the Muslims. As we...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
In every age and place there are men for sale... who are ready to sell their honor and conscience...but to sell their country and Church this is disgusting... and to sell their country and Church to who? This is more and more disgusting.
The respectable family of Zaqlamah is not the only family...
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Ever since the case first broke the news last fall, the response from the government has been uniform: No one was tortured at Al Koshh. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when, after a brief investigation that didn’t even involve the questioning of witnesses, prosecutors declined to bring charges...
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Egyptian newspaper Akbar El-Yom has caught the anger of the Holocaust research centre Simon Wiesenthal in Washington for an anti-Semitic statement by one of its writers.
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, August 25, 1999
More than 70 Islamists, once affiliated with the militant Jihad group have announced plans to establish a political party under the name Hezb Al-Shari’a or Islamic Law Party. The Islamists have adopted an agenda that calls for Islamicizing society and opposes the normalization of relations with...
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, August 25, 1999
Last week, a group of Egyptian politicians representing various shades of the nationalist, Nasserist and Islamist rainbow announced that procedures were under way to establish a new political party. They called their brainchild the "National Salvation Party - Under Establishment" and adopted an...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 1999
The RNSAW consulted Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, head of the College of Religious Fundamentals (’usul el-Din) about Rashad Khalifa and Ahmed Sobhy Mansour and the attacks on them in al-Ahrar.