Date of source: Friday, October 8, 1999
Some youth feel they are strangers to the church. This feeling is quite dangerous. The church should do its best to eliminate this feeling. The youth’s separation from the church means separation from the kingdom of God and getting close to the kingdom of the devil.
Date of source: Saturday, July 31, 1999 to Friday, August 6, 1999
In spite of the horrible accident at Beni Suef, internal tourism [by Egyptian Christians] was not affected by it. The trips to the monasteries are organized daily in order to get the blessings of the Saints there, and are considered the cheapest trips inside Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
’Putting Islam to Work’ joins a growing corpus of scholarly works on social change in Egypt and the Middle East which shun those modernization paradigms which inaccurately polarize Muslim societies and their educational institutions into false dichotomies of modern versus traditional, secular...
Date of source: Saturday, June 26, 1999
The conference has produced the Cairo Declaration in which all the scholars have agreed on the necessity of reviving the Islamic legacy and of working hard in order to restore the Islamic nation to its previous state. The conference is also demanding from Muslim scholars and religious leaders that...
Date of source: Monday, May 10, 1999
The author argues against the findings of a religious panel formed to examine Jibran’s book "The Prophet" for any religious offence or transgression. The panel decided that there were not any religious offences or transgressions, yet they were opposed to the pictures drawn in the book by Jibran;...
Date of source: Thursday, April 1, 1999 to Wednesday, April 7, 1999
In an exclusive interview, Pope Shenouda III speaks frankly to Al-Ahram Weekly about the national role of the Church, the new draft Personal Status law, and other controversial issues.
Date of source: Monday, February 15, 1999
The Egyptian Coptic Church objects to the use of the Cross as a trade mark for building materials, windows and doors.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 17, 1999
An overview of the position of Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 10, 1999
Fundamentalists, in particular the Islamist variety, relate to religious concepts, including the concept of Jihad, in an instrumentalist approach which is nearly always absolutist, that is, it entails an absolute assertion of one, generally de-contextualized, aspect of religion and a total...
Date of source: Friday, January 8, 1999
Pope Shenouda wants to see the boycotts on Iraq and Libya are lifted. He believes the Israeli conflict with the Arabs is a conflict of greed. He also said the problem of the Coptic endowments is close to a final solution, thanks to the government.