Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
Several wings within the Brotherhood are looking to fill the position of the general guide after Mustafa Mashhour. Some outsiders think succession in the Brotherhood is a result of conflict between the elders and the middle generation. Others claim that it is a power struggle between the "secret"...
Date of source: Saturday, January 20, 2001 to Friday, January 26, 2001
The attempts to put an end to the conflict between the head of the General Assembly of the Free Methodist Church and the ten deposed pastors have been ineffective. The head of the Assembly stated that the reason for this conflict was that the pastor of the church of Al-Goun asked foreign bodies to...
Date of source: Saturday, January 13, 2001 to Friday, January 19, 2001
Many reconciliation attempts are being made by many parties to contain the crisis that has broken out among the pastors of the Protestant Church [Free Methodist]. It seems that these attempts are still facing difficulties. Most probably, The Protestant Church will suffer the stubbornness of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 6, 2000
For the first time, disputes among the pastors of the Free Methodist church are taking place. The problem started when disputes between many pastors of the Church and the head pastor of its General Council became widespread. This was due to the accusations of lying, stealing, cursing, violating the...
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2000
According to the report of the Human Rights Watch on Egypt, the government of President Hosni Mubarak intensified its efforts to exercise control over civil society institutions, harassing and restricting the activities of political parties, human rights and other nongovernmental organizations (...
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2000
In the Student Union elections of this year in the Egyptian Universities the extremists lost. The moderate current won the elections in all the faculties with the exception of the faculty of Medicine, where the religious current won 25% of the positions. Extremists no longer control the Faculty of...
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2000
The unfortunate and barbaric events in Palestine have taken us into a new wave of angry protests by university students throughout Egypt, shouting their support for their Palestinian brothers, which is perfectly acceptable. However, these protest marches have quickly deteriorated into anarchism...
Date of source: Sunday, July 23, 2000
Subtitles: * Sadat ruled him out of the vote for a new Pope and then later gave him three hundred fidans in the desert. * He was the first monk to have a university qualification and Pope Shenouda was one of his followers in the monastery. * He said to me that Sadat’s eyes were red when he got...
Date of source: Sunday, February 6, 2000
The author looks at why the State insists on maintaining certain policies, and overlooks certain mistakes occurring within the political, media and security sectors. These mistakes have proved to have a disastrous effect on Egypt, especially in areas that suffer from deterioration of economic and...
Date of source: Sunday, November 21, 1999
Sidhom publishes a letter of Coptologist Dr. Gawdat Gabra who argues for the foundation of a Coptic Studies Department. He also describes the difficulties in obtaining this.