Date of source: Monday, July 24, 2006
Sa‘d al-Dīn
Ibrāhīm, head of the Ibn Khaldūn Center
for Development Studies, invites former head of the
Israeli Academic Center in Egypt to attend a conference on
minorities’ rights.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
During his participation in a conference of expatriate Copts in
New
York a few weeks ago, the deputy chairman of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization (EUHRO),
Māhir
Khallah, accused the organizers of the conference of distorting the image of Egypt abroad by
representing
individual...
Date of source: Thursday, July 13, 2006
This review deals with the controversy still blazing over the split of
clergyman Max Michel from the mother Coptic Orthodox Church, and his establishment of Qur’ān independent church and a
holy synod for Copts in Egypt and the Middle East.
Date of source: Sunday, July 9, 2006
In the same week as the pope’s return to Cairo after a medical trip abroad, many have spoken out about the controversial Archbishop Maximus I, or Max Michel. This article notes some of the key points of Michel’s life and discusses whether his controversial church has links with the US.
Date of source: Thursday, July 6, 2006
This press review deals with a controversial announcement made by Max Michel, a Christian who split from the Coptic Orthodox Church and set up a church in the Muqattam area and named himself Archbishop Maximus I, amidst an outcry from the Egyptian mother church and severe criticism.
Date of source: Friday, June 30, 2006
The author deals with the splinter church of Max Michel, a self-proclaimed
patriarch of
Orthodox Christians in Egypt and the Middle East, in a step described as an attempt to seek
legitimacy.
Date of source: Sunday, June 11, 2006
Student at the Evangelical Faculty of Theology, Michael
‘Ādil ‘Ajāybī,
sends a message entitled “Why fanaticism?” to Pope
Shenouda III of Alexandria, complaining about the refusal
of the Coptic Orthodox Church to allow the celebration of
the International Day of Prayer to take place at
the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 11, 2006
The Qasr al-Doubāra
Evangelical Church Sunday celebrated the International Day of
Prayer with the participation of the Prayer League
and a large number of prominent Christian figures.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The Egyptian minister of
awqāf [Endowments], Dr.
Muhammad Hamdī Zaqzouq, said the encrypted signal, used to produced a
single call to prayer in Cairo’s
mosques, would be sent from a broadcasting hub in al-Muqattam and would be
scrambled with the signal of the
Qur’ān Radio Station.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 26, 2003
For the past ten days, Egyptian news media have been circulating wild and unfounded stories aimed to discredit the newly reopened Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Al-Usbua newspaper devoted three pages to attacks on the "Zionist-American settlement in Muqattam" and claims that Dr. Saad...