Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
Revd. Louis, a leading Pentecostal pastor in Egypt, is not happy with certain Western missionaries who destroy more then they do good for the church in Egypt. Revd. Louis explains why.
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
Hulsman asked three Evangelical pastors in Egypt to comment on the two Rose el-Yousef articles. These pastors are certainly not happy with the publications in Rose el-Yousef. Their criticism, however, focuses on the tensions between churches in Egypt and para-Christian organizations, the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
Atef Helmi, an Egyptian Catholic, focuses his criticism on what he considers superstition of Egyptian Charismatics who are linked to American Charismatic movements.
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
The RNSAW gave a summary of both Rose el-Yousef articles in RNSAW, week 28, edition July 9-15, 1999. Since several readers asked for the full text that text is given in this issue together with comments from Evangelical Egyptian church leaders.
Wa’el Lotfi writes about the opposition of Egypt’s...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
Recently, there is a new trend which is developing in Egypt in general, and inside the Evangelical Church in particular. This new trend is called Charismatics. This phenomena is a general crisis because these people are believing in extremist ideas which might cause harm to the Egyptian society.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
The Discussion of Cultures Convention that was organized by the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services became a demonstration of love and tolerance between the Muslims and Christians in Egypt. The Islamic scholars together with the priests agreed that Egypt is now living a period of...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 1999 to Friday, May 14, 1999
Milad Sobhi, founder of the new denomination variously referred to as the ’Testament Church’, ’Coptic Testament Church’ or ’Divorcee’s church’ responds to an article by Dr. Girgis Kamel Youssef which attacked his claim that the "law of Moses is an Egyptian law." Here he gives his ’proofs’ for his...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 1999 to Friday, May 14, 1999
An anonymous Coptic Christian writes on the problem of divorced Copts. He cites statements by two legal counselors who say that the courts should decide the matter of permissions to remarry for divorced Coptic Orthodox Christians, and says that prohibition of permission of their remarriage is a...
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 1999
A response to Milad Sobhi’s claims that the law of the Old Testament is an Egyptian law and it is not true that it is a Jewish law as well as some of his other claims.
Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 1999
Desiring to end the problems caused by differences among the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant orders, 43-year old agricultural engineer Milad Sobhi intends to start a new one of his own, cashing in on the nagging problem of divorce to rally support for his call.