Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2004
AWR, 2004, week 37, article 27, has come to my notice and I would be grateful for some space to refute the allegations in Afaq Arabia, dated September 9. The paper writes: The international Catholic organization of Caritas launched a (missionary) campaign in Darfour targeting 125,000 Muslims. Our...
Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
A conference was held at the Arab League headquarters to discuss the image of the Arabs in the eyes of other civilizations. The conference aimed at finding a formula by which to confront the Western attack against Arabs and Muslims following the 11th September attack.
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The Kuwaiti authorities closed 127 illegal charity institutions following claims of Al-Qa’eda organization that the Gulf countries are the largest financial resources of the organization. Besides, the USA required the Kuwaiti government to tightly control such institutions. The Kuwaiti prime...
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2001
A Pakistani journalist interviewed Usama Bin Laden who said that if America used chemical or nuclear weapons against his group, they may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons. He added that the Pakistani president would be punished by the Pakistani people and Allah for cooperating with America.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 19, 2001
On the occasion of the Coptic New Year’s Day, the Christian Church of Egypt gave a presentation in the auditorium of UNESCO, Paris, under the title of Le Nil Eternel (The Eternal Nile).
Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2001
The author believes that this crisis was engineered as a way for outside bodies to become involved in Egypt’s internal affairs. He questions the aims behind publishing the article and the timing. He claims it was not an attack on Copts but on the whole of Egypt and national unity.
Date of source: Saturday, June 9, 2001 to Friday, June 15, 2001
Catholic father Rafiq Greish, Orthodox archpriest Salib Matta, and Protestant reverend Ikram Lamai responded to Rose El-Youssef’s article "seizing an extremist Christian group" The latter two did not restrict their arguments to the Adventists, but discussed the Catholic Church and popes. The author...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 5, 2001
People who believe that Christians have nothing to do with the Intifada adopt a religious concept of the Arab-Israeli conflict, limiting it to only a Muslim-Jewish one. Muslims adopting this view strengthen the racist Jewish claims and weaken the fact that Israel is violating the rights of both...
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
The Orthodox Church does not recognize the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Plymouth Brethren and Evangelists. It considers them as sects that have deviated from church references that are based on the Holy Bible, ecumenical councils, fathers’ sayings and church laws. Representatives of...
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
The information in this text is based on interviews Ms. Gavlak and Cornelis Hulsman made together with governor Adli Hussein and Bishop Marcos in March 2001 and the documents they provided. The article gives a background of the problems until around April 1.