Date of source: Monday, September 14, 1998
After a long phase of harassment and annoyance the Sheikh of the Azhar Mohammed Tantawi has decided to take a tougher stand with his opposition.
Date of source: Saturday, September 5, 1998
The paper criticizes a new film which is shown in Cairo’s cinema’s. The paper asks the opinion of several people, including dr. Yehia Ismail who accuses the sheikh al Azhar of not protecting religious values.
Date of source: Saturday, August 29, 1998
The article is a dialogue between the author and a Christian missionary.
Date of source: Saturday, August 29, 1998
A few Copts, no more than twenty persons, claim Copts in Egypt are persecuted. Copts in Egypt refute this.
Date of source: Saturday, August 8, 1998
The killing of three nuns in Yemen from the order established by Mother Teresa raised a lot of questions about the reason for the presence of nuns in a country that contains no Christians in the first place.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 4, 1998
A controversy over the release of movies and video films dramatizing events in the lives of Christian saints.
Date of source: Thursday, July 23, 1998
Archeological officials debated for three years whether to keep the museum in its current location. It has been decided to leave it where it is and to move some Islamic artifacts to other locations.
Date of source: Saturday, July 25, 1998
Missionaries are responsible for the events in East Timor, according to the paper.
Date of source: Thursday, July 23, 1998
Brigadier-General Hamdi El-Batran will probably lose his job because of a novel he published that was based on his experience in the force.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 23, 1998
Al-Sha’ab opens the file of another book in the AUC library that it considers to be against Islam.