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Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
The question that Copts are asking now is whether the meeting of Pope John Paul II with Pope Shenouda will end or at least quicken the ending of the conflict between the Orthodox and the Catholic Churches. The disagreement goes back to more than 1500 years ago. It centers on a main issue, which is...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
It was expected that the visit of Pope John Paul II would start in Iraq, as did the trip of Abraham. He would then go to Egypt passing by Palestine. It was hoped that this trip would draw attention to the suffering of the Iraqi people and the hunger that was harming children before adults. However...
Date of source: Thursday, February 17, 2000
Sub-title: The Vatican emphasizes its refusal of Israeli dominion over eastern Jerusalem and [its] fait-accompli policies
His Holiness Pope John Paul II is to arrive to Cairo next Thursday on the first visit of the pope of the Vatican to Egypt in response to the invitation of President Hosni...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
The Vatican Pope meets in his visit to Egypt with Pope Shenouda, which is a historical meeting by all measures. The disagreement in beliefs between the Orthodox and the Catholics starts with the state Virgin Mary was born in. Catholics believe she was born like Jesus [that is, without the original...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
Egypt will receive this week His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Catholics number 300 thousand citizens in Egypt. In spite of their different denominations, not one of them came out to claim that there is persecution in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
Catholics in Egypt are waiting for the visit of Pope John Paul II during the period from February 24-26. The visit represents an extraordinary event in the history of the Egyptian Catholic Church that contains seven different Catholic denominations, most prominent of which is the Catholic Copts...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
... Your Holiness Pope John Paul II, Pope of Vatican: Egypt is a country in which the crescent mingles with the cross. It has mosques and churches and everybody worships God Almighty. There are no sectarian conflicts at all and [this is] especially [so] in the era of President Mubarak. For the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 29, 2000 to Friday, February 4, 2000
The Catholic Coptic church is distributing the Arabic edition of the book "His Holiness" for the occasion of the visit of the Vatican pope to Egypt. The book is the biography of Pope John Paul II. Bishop Yohanna Qalta wrote the introduction of the book’s Arabic edition.
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
The Pope of the Vatican John Paul II declared that his program for the third millennium is based on three principal points:
First, repentance. This means self-criticism for the Church’s mistakes, which were committed during the past periods.
Second, the attempts to unify the churches that belong to...
Date of source: Saturday, January 29, 2000 to Friday, February 4, 2000
Subtitles: The pope meets with the president, Sheikh of the Azhar and Pope Shenouda. A mass to be held in the covered hall and another one in the garden of Saint Katherine’s monastery
Amr Moussa, the [Egyptian] Foreign Minister met with the ambassador of the Vatican last Wednesday night to discuss...
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