Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2000
The Country’s security prosecution ordered the arrest of 59 suspects in the Kosheh incidents, including the Coptic priest of the village. The head of the State Information Service confirmed that Pope John Paul II, the Pope of the Vatican will be visiting Egypt on the twenty-sixth of next month.
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2000
Mr. Nabil Osman, the head of the State Information Service, declared that the Egyptian government expects the visit of Pope John Paul II to Egypt at the end of next month.
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2000
The grand imam Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, met the Vatican delegation which is visiting Egypt in order to prepare for the visit of Pope John II, the Pope of the Vatican, to Egypt on February 24 [, 2000].
Date of source: Sunday, January 10, 1999
Sub-titles: The issue of Jerusalem will not be solved through negotiations, be ready for other options. I refused to visit Bethlehem because the Israeli flag profanes its lands. We have to take an action to face the Israeli nuclear domination
With confidence, faith and cheerfulness, Pope Shenouda...
Date of source: Saturday, December 11, 1999
The Vatican announced that they were informed by Iraq that the boycott imposed by the United Nations and the no-flying zones will make the Pope’s visit to the city of Ur impossible.
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 1999
The construction of a mosque in Nazareth has not caused a crisis between the Vatican and Israel, which will "very warmly receive" Pope John Paul II next year, Israel’s envoy to the Holy See said on Friday.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 1999
Pope John Paul hopes to fulfill his dream of tracing the footsteps of Jesus Christ next March when he makes a visit to Holy Land sites ruled by Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Vatican said Wednesday.
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 1999
Interview with Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, Grand Sheikh of the Azhar, about a range of actual subjects in Egypt, including regulating pilgrimage, his opposition to the embargo of Iraq, religious censorship, the new magazine of the Azhar, a fatwa on taking loans, presenting religious personalities...
Date of source: Monday, November 15, 1999
Iraq’s Roman Catholic patriarch said on Sunday that Pope John Paul’s trip to Iraq could start between Jan. 16 and 20 next year. The Vatican sends a high-level delegation next weekend to discuss details of the trip.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 2, 1999
With just two months to go before the start of the new Millennium, Israel is bracing itself for an influx of Christian cranks, who at best see the date as heralding the return of the Messiah and the Last Judgment and at worst are suspected of wanting to hasten these events.