Date of source: Wednesday, March 28, 2001
Bishop Yo’annes visited Jersey City and asked the people in a general meeting to meet president Mubarak in a nice way when he comes here in the States. Unfortunately, some people became very angry and refused all what the pope secretary was trying to say.
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001 to Friday, March 23, 2001
A delegation from the American Committee for International Religious Freedom is heading for Cairo to meet with a number of Egyptian officials and representatives from religious institutions. The committee’s spokesman said that the committee’s main task is to monitor religious status in a number of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001 to Friday, March 23, 2001
The author recounts the stories of some of the emigrant Copts, to reach the conclusion that their claims about Copts being persecuted in Egypt are nothing but lies. He believes that the problem is not simply with some of those living outside Egypt, but also with a small number of people helping...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001
Michael Mounier, the president of the US Copts Association sent a letter to the Board Chairman of Al-Gomhuria telling him that what the paper mentioned in its article "They forged the Pope’s signature" was false and baseless. He wrote that Copts abroad do not intervene in the affairs of the church...
Date of source: Saturday, March 10, 2001 to Friday, March 16, 2001
A new group, lead by Maurice Sadeq, was formed to defame Egypt. This usually happens whenever President Mubarak is about to visit the United States. The group claimed that Christians are persecuted in Egypt. Almost all Christian societies refused to take part in a meeting the group called for.
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001
The suspicions in Mamdouh Nakhla’s press release amount to a conspiracy theory about the death of a priest without having any supporting evidence. Some American Coptic activists tried to convince the RNSAW not to publish this text in the RNSAW because it harms Nakhla’s credibility. The intensive...
Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2001
This press release describes the way the police destroyed a building belonging to the church with a comment this is related to the Hamayouni Law which regulates/restricts building of churches.
Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2001
The governor of Sohag hosted a group of immigrant Australian Copts led by the priest of the Coptic Church in Australia. The priest of Tahta and Juhayna said that the aim of the visit was to correct the world’s vision of Egypt, which had been damaged by the foreign media.
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2001
AWR editor Cornelis Hulsman asked Michael Meunier to respond to an article in Al-Usbua, February 26. Michael Meunier responded in an e-mail that most claims in the Egyptian media about Copts in the US are made up. He gives several examples. Meunier agreed with placement in RNSAW.
Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2001
The American Congress formed a fact-finding committee to visit Al-Kosheh. The committee intends to meet Copts, investigate the religious and educational syllabus they study and discuss the rulings given in the action of Al-Kosheh II. The American Freedom House and many Coptic organizations...