Date of source: Friday, September 3, 1999
Pope Shenouda said that the Christians would not accept any foreign interference in order to solve their problems. Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the Minister of Al-Awqaf, believed that most of the things that are published abroad about Muslims and Christians were not correct. President Mubarak said...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 1999 to Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Egypt’s top diplomat in Iran said Tehran’s decision to name a street after the assassin of president Anwar Sadat was one of the chief obstacles to restoring full diplomatic ties with the country, Iranian papers said on August 25.
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
President Hosni Mubarak met on Sunday with US Senator Arlen Specter, who is currently on a regional tour which includes Palestinian self-rule areas and Israel. Senator Specter sponsored with Representative Frank Wolf the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act.
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
President Mubarak stated that he will not hesitate to further any changes that will strengthen the participation of civil society in developing the country. We should neither under-estimate this opportunity, nor should we look down cynically on ourselves, because we may think that we alone cannot...
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 15, 1999
The hopes and expectations for Mubarak’s coming period of presidency are summarized by a well known Christian columnist.
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
A special report by Drs. Cornelis Hulsman on the attack on the Coptic Orthodox priest Father Stephanous of al-Maḥallā al-Kubrā, based on personal visits and interviews with the priest himself, close associates, the security authorities and others. Also included is an analysis of the early Egyptian...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
In the mind of the author, the report of Drs. Cornelis Hulsman prepared for the New York Council of Churches a few weeks ago regarding the alleged kidnappings, rapes and forced conversions to Islam of young Christian girls was like a bomb destroying the claims of the Coptic groups in the USA who...
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999
The security forces in Al-Gharbia are making strenuous efforts in order to arrest the criminal who attacked the priest. There are a lot of suspects, but the investigations have not reached a final conclusion.
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999
The Muslim and Christian religious leaders denounced the attack on father Istaphanous.
President Mubarak sent a medical delegation and security sources pointed out that the criminal is a Christian.