Date of source: Friday, July 13, 2001
The author received many letters comparing the story Al-Nabaa published about the expelled monk and the contents of "A banquet for Seaweed," "The Formation Period" and "Yathrib Community," which are believed to disdain Islam. His conclusion was that the law prohibits scorning religions and that is...
Date of source: Thursday, July 19, 2001
[This article is a follow-up of another article about the same subject. RNSAW, 2001, week 26A, art. 26] Bishop Dimitrious and priests in Malawi strongly deny the claims of the Australian Coptic Association Youth Branch that four girls from Malawi had been kidnapped.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Fahmi Howeidi believes that anger ruined the right way of handling the case of the expelled monk. Instead of regarding it as an attempt to attack the public system, violating the traditions of the journalism profession, it was regarded as a matter concerning only Copts. The angry people did not...
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
Cornelis Hulsman called Bishop Marcos on March 28 with additional questions, prepared by Dale Gavlak and him, after they had read through the transcripts of the interviews with the governor and the bishop.
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
The list below is based on the information obtained from both H.E. Governor Adli Hussein and H.G. Bishop Marcos until April 1, 2001. The list is followed by a number of questions about the information found.
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
Both the governor of Qalyubiya and the bishop of Shubra el-Kheima provided us with documents to support their arguments. We have translated the 11 documents, and placed them in chronological order. In this order it is important to distinguish between the period before March 1 (the oral permit of...
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
After Dale Gavlak and Cornelis Hulsman interviewed the governor of Qalyubiya they interviewed H.G. Bishop Marcos and asked him to respond to all the issues raised by the governor.
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
The governor gave his point of view on the problems with the church service building in Shubra el-Kheima. He beliefs the problems lies primarily with the lack of required licenses. The destroyed building will, however, be rebuild because " That is the order of the President." The governor also...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2001
The article in Sout al-Umma dated May 9 is based on the response of the Monastery of Makarios to the RNSAW, 2001, week 08A, art. 26. The article states the Monastery sent the response to the RNSAW in English. This is not true. The Monastery responded in Arabic, the RNSAW translated this into...
Date of source: Saturday, May 12, 2001
We wrote in the RNSAW, week 17, art. 18, that the information in the April 27 press release of the US Copts Association claiming the Egyptian government "moves to abduct two Coptic children from their own mother and hand them to strangers, under the name of Islam!" is misleading. Both the chairman...