Date of source: Monday, September 25, 2006
As litigation about the title of a piece of land neighboring a Coptic monastery in “Awlād ‘Azzāz” village, sever clashes sparked between Muslim and Christian residents. The editor of AWR added a comment about Orthodox clergy at times instructing buildings without permits.
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
Western history is full of falsifications against
Islam. The real conflict is not between
Muslims and Christians of the region, but between the West and the Islamic
orient.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
The author
discusses Bishop Yūhannā al-
Naqyūsī’s historical account of the seventh century
Arabian conquest of Egypt and refutes the claims
mentioned either by him or the Abyssinian translator about the
brutality of the Arabs when they entered
Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, September 25, 2006
The U.S.-
based Center for Study of Islam and Democracy (C.S.I.D.) recently sent a letter to President Bush, signed by
90
Arab and Egyptian human rights activists, calling on him to intervene in the region to achieve democracy
and to
maintain pressure towards eliminating dictatorial regimes.
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
From the crusades until now, religion has always been taken as an excuse to wage war. The pope’s recent attitude reveals his political orientation.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 29, 1997
A new bill amending some of the articles of the Hamaiouni law which is concerned with building churches is allegedly being discussed.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 1, 1997
Dr. Mohammed Emara, a well-known Islamist writer, comments in el-Shaab, generally considered the mouth-piece of the Muslim Brotherhood, about an article in Al-Ahram, describing the stereotyped pictures of Arabs in the American mass media. Emara writes that the Western media cannot be changed...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 18, 1997
Egypt is often criticized abroad for its treatment of its Christian citizens. Prominent Coptic thinker Dr. Milad Hanna, confirmed that equality between Muslims and Christians is not there. Lu’iy Mahmoud Sa’id, himself a Muslim, describes how Muslim authors attacked Milad Hanna for stating his view...
Date of source: Monday, September 18, 2006
The suspicious visit of Michael
Munīr to Egypt, head
of the United States Coptic Organization, has raised questions about the kind of
demands he may make.
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2006
In a symposium at the Monastery of Badābā in
Naj‘ Hammādī, the head of the Washington-based U.S. Copts Association, Michael
Munīr, described the head of the St. Athanasius Orthodox Eparchy of Egypt and the Middle East,
Bishop
Max Michel, as an "outsider" who incited Christians to disobey Pope...