Date of source: Friday, February 26, 1999
The head of the Shari`a Supporters organization Abu Hamzah Al-Masry threatened to bomb all western airplanes both civilian and military. He assured [reporters of] his determination to raise his plan in the meeting of fundamentalist groups held in London.
Date of source: Monday, March 1, 1999
Marriage among Christians in Egypt has become a time bomb that may blow up anytime to increase the disputes among Christian churches and create a crisis in the Coptic Orthodox Church. More than 44,000 Copts have obtained divorce decrees, but they are unable to get permissions for a second marriage...
Date of source: Monday, March 1, 1999
Last week, the Sadat City Prosecutor called for Fr. Antonios in Mari Girgis monastery, and four workers who are working in the same monastery who made a complaint against the monk. They accused him of attacking one of them with a razor blade in an attempt to rape him. The worker was wounded in his...
Date of source: Monday, March 1, 1999
Four persons attacked the monk. They tied his hands with ropes and chains, shaved his beard, cut his hair, forced him to take off his robe and beat him. In an official report they also accused him of trying to rape a young man.
Date of source: Sunday, February 28, 1999
The author presents his version of the background of a monk in a controversy in a monastery in Al-Khatatba. This article should be read in conjunction with the following articles about the same subject.
Date of source: Sunday, February 28, 1999
The first Islamic-Christian Egyptian German joint dialogue in cooperation with the Symposium of Civilizations under the auspices of the Coptic Evangelical Authority for Social Services and the Evangelical Church in Germany took place in Luxor.
Date of source: Sunday, February 28, 1999
The Minister for Education, Dr. Hussein Kamal Baha Al-Din, has issued a Ministerial decree number 29 dated January 1, 1999, to add Dr. Milad Hanna to the committee for the revision of the History curriculum at all educational levels in particular with the aim of pointing out the importance of the...
Date of source: Saturday, February 27, 1999
Traditionally Upper Egypt is well-known for family frictions and feuds with bloody confrontations. Blind loyalty to family groups is rampant in the Upper Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, March 1, 1999
Ahmed Omar Hashim accused an Egyptian TV serial of doing harm to Muslim scholars.
Date of source: Monday, March 1, 1999
Every actress or belly-dancer has the right to retire and put on a veil. She has the right to choose her own way. But, she does not have the right to play with our religious feelings.