Date of source: Friday, April 20, 2001
The author believes that most of what Kamal Zakher Musa wrote in his article "The Pope and the apology" was incorrect and lacked credibility. It was prejudiced against the Pope who was the first to give Orthodoxy a name and a position in the whole world. She criticized his referring to the...
Date of source: Monday, April 2, 2001
Kamal Zakher Musa said that Pope Shenouda’s lecture, to a group of , was disjointed and lacked brightness and passion. He said he did not understand the need for lectures and thought the written word was more powerful. A student gave him two tapes of an earlier lecture one of which had incomplete...
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2001
The issue of nominating bishops to become patriarchs caused debate even when it started as early as the fourth century A.D. Church councils rejected the nominations and considered it to be a sin equal to adultery. The first direct violation of choosing the patriarch from among only the monks took...
Date of source: Saturday, April 7, 2001
The head of the Evangelical church stressed that President Mubarak does not refuse any request concerning building or restoring any church. He said that the President agreed on specifying a piece of land in every new city for building a church.
Date of source: Saturday, April 7, 2001
Pope Shenouda III received a piece of land, owned by the state, in Al-Tur city, in the South of Sinai governorate, to build a new church.
Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2001
The Evangelical church of Shoubra Al-Nozha will hold its second celebration to honor model mothers on the occasion of family day. Ten women, including seven Muslims, will be honored.
Date of source: Saturday, March 24, 2001
The American Embassy in Cairo invited Mohammed Mursi, the Brotherhood representative in the Parliament, to participate in the meetings of the American Commission for International Religious Freedom. Mursi accepted the invitation, at first, and tried to persuade some of the Brotherhood leaders to...
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2001
This prominent Coptic author tells the US commission good-bye. Muslim-Christian issues are discussed in Egypt and don’t need their interference.
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2001
The priest of the Church of the Holy Virgin, in Minya, died and his brother, his [brother’s] maid and the driver were injured when their car crashed into a lamppost after one of its tires exploded.
Date of source: Monday, February 12, 2001
Pope Shenouda III will head the sessions of the Middle East Council of Churches to be held in Cairo from March 15. The meetings will be attended by a number of heads of Eastern churches, including the Armenian Orthodox Catholicos and the Greek Orthodox Pope. Sessions will discuss means to bring...