Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
A suspicious pamphlet from an unknown source asked for direct American intervention in Egypt’s affairs and for the American Marine forces to be stationed in Egypt to defend [American] foreign affairs here. It considered Copts as American subjects not as Egyptian citizens. It mentioned that churches...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 28, 2001
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman returned from Beni Suef and Minya, after visiting the Holy Family sites with a group of 35 foreigners who belong to the Church of [John] the Baptist, in Maadi.
Date of source: Friday, March 16, 2001
Despite all the criticism above Mamdouh Nakhla keeps insisting the accident was deliberately planned. He says that in all previous accidents ’the drivers who caused those accidents survived’ which is for him sufficient to suspect foul play.
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2001
A car accident caused the death of Father Antonios Zaki Ghobrial and three of his relatives in Minya governorate. Nakhla believes this accident is mysterious. He says this should arouse the suspicion of any reasonable person as to whether there was foul play somewhere.
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2001
The priest of the Church of the Holy Virgin, in Minya, died and his brother, his [brother’s] maid and the driver were injured when their car crashed into a lamppost after one of its tires exploded.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 14, 2001
The Governor of Minya said the worshipping tree was an ordinary one and that no concerned body told them that it had historical value. The head of Samalout City Council said they set up a fact finding committee that found out that the tree had no religious or historical value. A researcher in the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 24, 2001
A severe crisis broke out inside the Muslim Brotherhood after the group’s secret list of those who will run in the elections for the Bar Association was leaked. Mohammed Tousoun, who replaced Mokhtar Nuh, accused the opposing group of being responsible as they want to give the impression that Nuh...
Date of source: Saturday, January 20, 2001 to Friday, January 26, 2001
Protestant churches declared that there are still evil spirits that possess people and there are gifted people in the church who can free people form them. Pastor Samy Henin said in a new book that this is a superstition. He said that people possessed by evil spirits have ceased to be since Jesus...
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...