Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2000
President Hosni Mubarak delegated Ashraf Omar Bakr, First Secretary of the Presidency to go to the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral to present Christmas greetings to His Holiness Pope Shenouda III. President Mubarak has also delegated General Adel Sobhi Suleiman to go the Armenian Orthodox Church in...
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 1999
The detailed [US] report on Egypt states that the Egyptian constitution ensures the freedom of belief and the right to exercise the religious rituals within certain limitations portrayed by the state.
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 1999
Youssef Sidhom discusses the report Religious Freedom in the world. Many governments have pledged not to resort to any means of discrimination between its citizens based on religion. Despite this, there are some countries where there is a difference between pledges and practices, where religious...
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 1999
Some 24 million Egyptians headed to the election polls yesterday to renew their allegiance to President Mubarak for a fourth six-year term in office.
Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 1999
Youssef Sidhom, editor-in-chief of the Coptic weekly Watani shows his high regard for President Mubarak.
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 1999
This Freedom from Religious Persecution Act gives America the right to interfere in diplomatic ways to the concerned governments and if a government does not respond, it is the right of the U.S. administration to impose any sanctions that it (the U.S.) sees fit. The author stresses that several...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Dr. Selim Naguib, president of the Canadian Coptic Federation, sent this letter to President Mubarak to congratulate him with his survival of an attack on his life. Ramzy Zaklama comments on the importance of the letter for the RNSAW.
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 1999
The United States released its first annual report on religious freedom worldwide on Thursday (September 9, 1999)... Regarding Egypt, the report admitted that the non-Muslim Christian minority generally practice[s its] rituals without any interference, but it claimed that there [is] some societal...
Date of source: Friday, September 10, 1999
The report of the American Foreign Ministry about religious freedom in the world confirmed that President Hosni Mubarak implemented the necessary procedures to facilitate and support religious freedom for Egyptian Copts.
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 1999
An analysis of the city of Port Said, and Al-Sayyed Hussein Mahmoud Soliman, the 40-year-old clothes vendor who stirred up public resentment when he attacked President Hosni Mubarak’s motorcade during a visit on September 6 to Port Said last week. Soliman was hot dead by Mubarak’s bodyguards.