Date of source: Thursday, August 28, 1997
President Housni Moubarak gave a comprehensive political speech to Al-Ahram newspaper last week. This speech dealt with the president’s viewpoints concerning the most important internal and external issues and was clear and self- evident. Yet the problems of the Copts, and their aspirations for the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 17, 1997
Next month, his holiness the pope will start a journey to meet Coptic emigrants to Britain and the United States. This visit will continue for weeks and will contain visits to a number of cities and states. During his trip, the pope will clarify the position of the church. In a five hour interview...
Date of source: Thursday, July 31, 1997
[The
author is the priest of the Church of Saint George in El-Ma’adi]Concerning old age, Solomon said in
his proverbs "the pride of sons [is], their fathers, the crown of old age, white hair". This is why old men
are
called Shaykhs, the title of the teachers, prominent leaders and wise men in...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 29, 1997
Subtitle:What is going on within the church?The real story about the excommunicated Monk
Danial El-Baramousi, and Monk AghathonWhy didn’t the excommunicated fathers speak about the real
reasons
for their excommunication?El-Watani newspaper examines the reasons for the
excommunication of...
Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 1997
Father Athanasios Asak Henen; pastor of the Orthodox
church in Greece answers an article
of Mr. Fahmy Huweidy in el-Ahram in which he asked for the voice of the
church against the American
Copts’ claims that Copts in Egypt are subjected to persecution. The priest writes that
social problems,...
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 1997
Yousef Sidhom, editor-in-chief of Watani, responds to an article of Islamist author Fahmy Huweidy in Al-Ahram newspaper demanding that the Coptic church denounce all extremist movements who tarnish the image of Egypt on the international stage by focusing on negative aspects of Egypt, including...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 2, 1997
In a meeting about peaceful co-existence between
religions, Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Sa’id Tantawi and Pope
Shenouda declared that Muslims and Christians in Egypt
set a marvellous model of peaceful co-existence
between religions, since they have equal rights and they work
together to fight...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 24, 1997
The article
is an attack
on the consecrated houses, secret churches established in private flats in opposition to the Coptic
Orthodox
Church. It claims that from these consecrated houses, a secret pope has emerged in opposition to Pope
Shenouda III. The consecrated houses are, according to...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Eva Meinardus comments on her late husband Dr. Otto Meinardus’ opinions and visit to H.H. Pope Shenouda.
Foreign groups show interest in AWR work on the status of human rights in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
This
article traces the battle between Islam and Christianity via the satellites and the internet, led by an
Islamic
preacher, ‘Abdullāh Badr and a priest, Zakarya Butrus. Satellite channels and the
internet have
become a means through which sectarian sedition is spread in Egypt.