Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2000
In this article, Mr. Sidhom deals with the proposals presented by some Copts in Egypt
for the purpose of building new churches in the cities of the governorates of south and north Sinai, and the way these proposals have been neglected.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000
Christians dwelling in the new cities are suffering in terms of meeting their spiritual needs. No churches are built there. The thought of purchasing a land to build a church, will cost them to meet the complications of the authorities. If they succeed in overcoming this, they will get caught in...
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2000 to Saturday, April 29, 2000
Happy year to all of you as today is one of the five main feasts for Christians in Egypt. These are five days for which we fight every year. We have asked several times for the feasts of the Copts to be considered official holidays for the whole country, this would conquer many negative aspects...
Date of source: Sunday, April 16, 2000
Last Wednesday, the AUC declared a beginning was made with the funding of a Coptic studies course. The dean of the AUC talked about the role of the University in establishing the value of culture and civilization in the spirits of the students.
Date of source: Sunday, April 16, 2000
Al-Ashmounain village in Al-Minya governorate is one of the main stations of the Holy Family. In spite of its historic importance, the security forces shut down the church in 1986 for "security reasons". What is really amazing is that when the people asked to re-open and restore the church, their...
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2000
In this article, Youssef Sidhom wrote about "Unifying the rules that control building, expanding and restoring the worship places in order to achieve equality among all citizens in spite of their different religions." Sidhom wants equal rules for building mosques and churches.
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2000 to Friday, April 14, 2000
Mr. Alber Azer Bareh presented his second complaint against Mr. Youssef Sidhom, the editor-in-chief of "Watani" newspaper because the attitudes of Watani affect social peace and the patriotic unity. He said that all the Muslims and Christians are enjoying freedom in the age of President Mubarak. He...
Date of source: Sunday, April 2, 2000
... the five articles that were published as a survey of the echoes of "The Statement of the Hundred" were intended to deal with a climate that existed and the Kosheh incidents showed this climate clearly.
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2000
... What we were afraid of happened... and the screams of the Kosheh and Dar Al-Salaam victims started to reach our ears. Days and weeks are passing and nobody is asking about them... No money was given to these victims except one thousand pounds for the killed and the injured. All the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2000
Watani publish a notice faxed to them from Mr. Albair Aazer Bareh, ex-member of the People’s Council of Alexandria Governorate addressed to the Egyptian State Attorney in which he attacks the Statement of the Hundred as being seditious. Watani then gives their response to this attack.