Date of source: Thursday, August 4, 2005
The salary of a priest with a family can be as 200LE, and the church is able to deprive priests of their financial rights at will. Consequently, some priests suffer serious financial hardship.
Date of source: Saturday, November 9, 2002
Many Christians believe God reveals Himself through visions to mankind. The Bible is full of this and the apostle Peter says: “And it shall come to pass in the last days… your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams” [Acts 2:17]. And thus Orthodox, Pentecostals and other...
Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2002
Osama Salama´s words are sharp, full of anger about Coptic emigrants. People in Egypt, other Arab countries, Europe, the US and Israel itself protest against the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians. But where are the voices of the emigrant Copts and Arab Christians? We checked the Copts...
Date of source: Thursday, November 17, 2005
A heated controversy has erupted among Protestant and Orthodox Egyptian churches over the validity of seven books of the Old Testament, the Torah.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Understanding honor and shame in the Egyptian and Arab context resulting in misreportings on the conversion and alleged kidnapping of Christian girls.
Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad cause tensions
Date of source: Wednesday, September 1, 2004
This report presents the interviews with nineteen people, 18 Egyptians and one American researcher about the importance of the work of Arab-West Report, people of different backgrounds, Muslims and Christians, clergy and non-clergy, including scholars and human rights lawyers. Christian...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Comments on the article of Dr. Zeinab ‘Abdel Aziz in October Magazine in which she attacks Christian faith. Articles like this have a negative impact on Arab-West and Muslim-Christian relations.
Dutch Catholic priest Brother Piet Lindner, friend of AWR, passed away.
Date of source: Monday, March 29, 2004
“The Passion of Christ” was the subject of much attention lately in the Egyptian Church; especially after many [Egyptians] watched it on their personal computer screens. The film has been copied from the Internet. There were discussions among all Christian denominations about the image of the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2004
Arab-West Report presented the draft text of the findings of its staff to Compass Direct. Compass Direct responded on November 21 with “We consider your condemnation as both unwarranted and unjustified. We stand by the story.” Compass Direct refused to provide further explanations. This made the...
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 2004
Interviewing 18 Egyptians, including bishops, and one American, about major issues in religious freedom in Egypt and the importance of AWR work