Date of source: Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Christianity Today introduced Drs. Cornelis Hulsman, editor-in-chief of the RNSAW, to the readers of Christianity Today. The introduction explains how Hulsman got interested in the Christian churches in the Arab World.
Date of source: Friday, December 28, 2001
The death of six Christians from Al-Qussia, including a priest, in a bus accident . The Coptic Orthodox Church in Sawada destroying the church of Saint Dimyana for the sake of building a new church but meanwhile the altarscreen and other artifacts of the old church were lost. The removal of the...
Date of source: Thursday, December 20, 2001
The press release summarizes the text of the charter the Arab Christian-Muslim Working Group which is working closely with the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC). The charter expresses a shared commitment of Muslims and Christians to engage energetically in "working together to promote...
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2001
Report about a visit to the location of the church-to-be in Al-Ubur City. A practically empty spot of land in a desert which is designated for building was found. The location had not been ’stormed’ by police and no people had been arrested as the US Copts Association had claimed. Photographs of...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
The German Pontifical Mission Aid Society Missio organized a two-day conference with the title "Persecuted Christians? Analysis from Asia and Africa." Missio invited representatives from Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, the Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt to their conference who asked for care in using the word ’...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
Two new members have joined the Advisory Board of the RNSAW. They are Dr. Tareq Mitri, the Program Executive for Christian-Muslim Relations and Dialogue of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, and Dr. Arne H. Fjeldstad, a Norwegian scholar with a Ph.D. in Internet Communications.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, member of our Board of Advisors, is no longer dean of the Faculty of Islamic Theology (’Usul el-Din) at the Azhar. He was dean from 1989 to 1991 and from 1997 to 2001. The two periods are a total of six years which is the maximum someone can be the dean of this college. Dr...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2001
An emigrant Copt sent a letter to the editor-in-chief of Al-Ahali, complaining about an article by the Christian columnist Nagy George, who criticized Michael Meunier for writing lies in a press release claiming that the Egyptian police had fired rubber bullets against an exaggerated large number...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Sout Al-Umma published an article about raping 400,000 Christian girls and forcing them to convert to Islam, with the aim of disclosing the lies of emigrant Copts. No one objected although the number was huge. The paper thought that the news about the 70,000 Copts forging police reports to get...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Coptic sources in California discovered that about seventy thousand young Coptic Egyptian men claimed that they were persecuted and submitted false reports stamped with fake stamps about their wives being raped to get access to work and obtain American citizenship.