Date of source: Thursday, September 7, 2000
Sessions of the Twelfth Islamic Conference of the Founding Committee of the International Islamic Council for Da’wa [Islamic missionary activity or ’inviting or calling people to worship Allah by following the messenger of Allah] and Aid began in Cairo last Monday. In his speech, the Grand Sheikh...
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2000
In this article, the writer points out that the Coptic new year’s day is an Egyptian feast and not only a Christian one.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 6, 2000
The Misdemeanors Court of Sohag, pronounced the sentence in the case of the incidents at Dar Al-Salaam, which took place after those at Al-Kosheh. As a result of these incidents, five people were injured and 156 shops, one office, a pharmacy and a house were burnt and destroyed. Out of the 39...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 30, 2000
In this article, the author praised the astonishing variation of intellectual thoughts of the late priest Ibrahim Abdel Sayed, and listed some of his thorny controversies.
Date of source: Saturday, September 2, 2000
The author of this article criticized the provocative statements of the priest Morcos Aziz, in which he, according to the author, tried to convince the public that there was a ministerial conspiracy against the hanging church. "How could the restoration project of an ancient prayer house become a...
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The Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, warns against dealing lightly with the extremist Jews who are planning to attack the al-Aqsa Mosque. He described the burning of it as a black page in the history of Zionism.
Date of source: Friday, July 28, 2000
Al-Akhbar investigated the problems regarding the restoration of the Hanging Church.
The Minister of Culture, Farouq Hosni, said that the Hanging Church is one of the most prominent and important Coptic monuments and an important element in the complex of religious buildings in Old Cairo. It is...
Date of source: Thursday, July 20, 2000
Counselor Jabir Rihan of the Public Prosecution, charged the Labor Party with nine accusations of breaking the law. These accusations were made following investigations that revealed that the Party had links with the banned Muslim Brotherhood and relationships with other extremist Islamic groups....
Date of source: Tuesday, June 27, 2000
In this article, the author speaks about his experience, as a Coptic person, of attending the celebration of prophet Mohammed’s birthday in the Khorshid mosque in Gezirat Badran, after receiving a gracious invitation from Sheikh Fathi Ibrahim, the Imam of the mosque. This experience reminded him of...
Date of source: Friday, June 2, 2000
The author begins his article by recounting how the Minister of Justice settled the heated debate between the two counselors Malek Mena and Wasaf Nashed, concerning whether to apply the law of Al-Khula to Christians or not. Then he mentions the role the late priest Ibrahim Abdel Said played in...