Date of source: Thursday, December 22, 2005
On December 13, Dream satellite channel broadcast a program on the reported forced Islamization of Christian girls in Egypt. TV host, Mr Wā’il al-Ibrāshī, invited Dr. Najīb Jabrā’īl and Coptic thinker Jamāl As‘ad to join him in the program.
Date of source: Sunday, December 11, 2005
The Evangelical Church in Egypt is in conflict because a priest has invited a South Korean religious leader, accused of heresy by many in the Korean church, to convene a conference in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, December 1, 2005
Dr. Nabīl Louqā Bibāwī writes on the passivity of Copts in regard to their participation in the Egyptian political domain.
Date of source: Friday, November 18, 2005
Celebrating the Evangelical Church’s 150 years of ministry in Egypt, Munā al-Mallākh writes on the history of Evangelicalism in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, November 5, 2005 to Friday, November 11, 2005
Many Muslims and Christians enter each other’s places of worship in order to condole friends over the death of relatives or to congratulate them on the occasions of weddings. The author states that the proximity between churches and mosques has no bearing on sectarian tensions.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Some might have expected the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) to pay gratitude to the Copts in the parliamentary elections, but in fact, only one Copt was nominated by the NDP in the Ghurbāl constituency in Alexandria.
Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2005
The T.V. channel, Aghābī, will start transmission on November 14, the 34th anniversary of the ascent to the Papal Chair of Pope Shenouda III. The channel will be headed and supervised by the Pope together with a committee comprising 114 Church members, metropolitans and bishops of the Coptic...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
Minister of Information Dr. Mamdouh Al-Beltagui requested that “A girl from Shubra” [Bent Min Shubra] be screened before the Church and the Azhar before being aired on Egyptian television. We say that the decision of the minister is unwise. Nothing in the television series raises the necessity of...
Date of source: Monday, November 1, 2004
In a previous issue we have published the complete story of the banishment of Archpriest Bulis Aweida from the seven-story St. Marina Church in Shubra. The congregation then resorted to clerics in order to have the priest back to the church.
We were not in fact supporting any side against the...
Date of source: Monday, November 1, 2004
We dare call what happened with the soap opera Bint min Shubra (A girl from Shubra) a massacre or crisis but after all it is yet another banned item.