Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2001
This press release describes the way the police destroyed a building belonging to the church with a comment this is related to the Hamayouni Law which regulates/restricts building of churches.
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2001
Bishop Marcos reported that President Mubarak granted a permit to build a church in Shoubra Al-Kheima. This decision came after the US Copts Association organized an international protest against the demolition of a building belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church. It is practice of Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: Sunday, February 25, 2001
Colonel Dr. Mohammed al-Ghannam, previous director of Legal Research at the Ministry of Interior asked how the situation could deteriorate so dangerously around the turn of the years 1999/2000 while the Ministry of Interior was claiming they were in control. Despite a declaration from People’s...
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2001
The verdict given in the action of Al-Kosheh has caused a strong line of division between Egypt’s Muslims and Christians. Most Muslims accept the impartiality of the court while many Christians, inside and outside Egypt, expressed their anger in articles, letters and interviews about the verdict....
Date of source: Sunday, February 18, 2001
The author highlights the main points discussed by Gamal Asaad in his book "I Confess - The Backstage of the Church, the Parties, and the Muslim Brotherhood." He disagrees with Asaad on his interpretation of Pope Shenouda’s character. He respects the pope and his national role in rejecting...
Date of source: Sunday, January 14, 2001
This article is a response to Dr. Mohammed Gam’a’s comment on Atef’s Abdel Ghani’s article on the foundation of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya. The latter wrote that Mohammed Othman Ismael played an important role in founding the Gama’at Al-Islamiya. Gam’a tried to raise doubts about the role of Ismael...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
Dr. Rodolph Yanney, president of the Society of Coptic Church Studies and founder and editor of Coptic Church Review in 1980, gave the RNSAW permission to bring his articles in the Copts Digest and the Coptic Daily Digest, published in 1999, together in one report describing the factors leading to...
Date of source: Monday, January 8, 2001
Some members of the Islamic bloc are asking questions about the Ministry of the Interior, the head of the Supreme Council of the Press and the head of the Shura Council’s failure to execute court judgments in the case of Al-Shaab newspaper. The deputy general secretary of the Labor Party said that...
Date of source: Saturday, December 30, 2000
The Assistant Interior Minister says that terrorist groups are still present and develop themselves. Some of their members are highly educated and can plan very well in order not to be discovered. Most of them are young people who go through brain washing making them rather die than be discovered....
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 (...