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Date of source: Wednesday, June 28, 2006
The
recent decision of the People’s Assembly to ban ‘The Da Vinci Code’ has provoked
considerable
controversy amongst Egyptian intellectuals, dividing opinions between those who defended the
movie on grounds of
freedom of expression and those who condemned it as blasphemous and misleading.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Egyptian President
Muhammad Husnī
Mubārak yesterday opened the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo, recently renovated at a cost
of L.E. 30 million.
The renovation was made through a $300 million from the Japanese government, the
Egyptian minister of culture,
Fārouq Husnī said.
Date of source: Thursday, June 22, 2006
The spiritual leader of the Monastery of St. Macarius, Father
Mattā al-Miskīn [Reviewer:
Matthew the poor], has passed away at the age of 87 after a life of great
and fruitful labor for the welfare
of human beings.
Date of source: Thursday, June 22, 2006
Rumors went
around that Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark, had traveled to Germany
to
undergo a backbone surgery. Spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, Bishop Marqus, criticizes some
private
newspapers, which he says have published false rumors about...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 21, 2006
The Evangelical
Church in Misr al-Jadīda has planned to screen the movie, ‘The Da Vinci Code,’
and to follow the
screening with a panel discussing the contents of the book, upon which the movie was
based.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
A few days ago,
Father Mattā al-Miskīn
[Matthew the poor] passed away at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy of
books on monastic life. In his book,
al-Kanīsa wa al-Dawla [The church and the state], Father al
-Miskīn warned against sowing
sedition between Muslims and Christians in Egypt,...
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
Two weeks ago, al-Fajr published a letter sent in by a Bahā’ī reader, who discussed in detail the principles of the Bahā’ī faith. In its issue of June 19, 2006, al-Fajr publishes two more letters sent in by Muslim readers responding to what they described as falsehoods contained in the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
The Egyptian parliament yesterday debated the movie, ‘The Da Vinci Code’ at the request of several Coptic members, who demanded a ban on both the movie and the book for being blasphemous to Jesus Christ. The Egyptian minister of culture, Dr. Fārouq Husnī, vowed to ban the movie and to pull the...
Date of source: Monday, June 5, 2006
A recent Administrative
Judicial Court ruling allowing Egyptian Bahā’īs to have their religion recognized on official
documents and the issue of Bahā’ī marriage have been a subject of heated debate in the
Egyptian press.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
The Islamic-Christian Institution in
Jordan has recently issued a statement in
which it condemned The Da Vinci Code, saying the movie is a direct
assault on Christ which hurts the
religious sentiments of both Muslims and Christians.
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