Date of source: Friday, July 18, 1997
El-Wafd publishes a statement of an Islamic missionary committee who converted 10,000 Asian workers, among them many Catholic Filipinos, to Islam in the past 9 years.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 8, 1997
The article calls Jews immoral because they tarnished the Holy Qur’an and mocked the image of the Virgin Mary carrying Jesus the infant. The author calls for an end to such insults.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 1, 1997
Subtitles:1- Dr. Tantawy: She who drew this nasty picture deserves death. The Mufti demands the Israeli government and men of religion declare their position from concerning this immoral action.2- Men of religion: "This is a declaration of war against Islam".3- Arabic newspapers: "It is the most...
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
A People’s
Assembly member disavows the Muslim
Brotherhood’s slogan and denies having perpetrated violations against
Copts.
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2006
In a symposium at the Monastery of Badābā in
Naj‘ Hammādī, the head of the Washington-based U.S. Copts Association, Michael
Munīr, described the head of the St. Athanasius Orthodox Eparchy of Egypt and the Middle East,
Bishop
Max Michel, as an "outsider" who incited Christians to disobey Pope...
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2006
Max Michel, otherwise known as Archbishop Maximus of the St.
Athanasius Orthodox Eparchy of Egypt and the Middle East, announced that his church will organize a monthly
cultural salon to discuss a set of proposed recommendations for the reformation of the Coptic Orthodox
Church.
Maximus said...
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
The
2006
international religious freedom report released by the U.S. State Department indicated that the
Egyptian
constitution provides for freedom of belief and the practice of religious rites, but the government
places
restrictions on them.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
The author reports on the adjourned session of a lawsuit filed by a number of Copts accusing Max Michel, the self-appointed archbishop of Orthodox Christians in Egypt, who named himself as Metropolitan Maximus I, of slandering Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
In an attempt to quench the uproar over his recent fatwá that appeared
to allow the
killing of Israeli Jews worldwide, Muslim dā‘īyah Shaykh
Safwat
Hijāzī, explains in two interviews with Sawt al-Ummah and al-Wafd that his
fatwá
should only be carried out during wartime.
Date of source: Thursday, September 7, 2006
Jamīl Matar discusses influences on U.S.
foreign policy and rejects the catch phrase that "all
terrorists are Muslims but not all Muslims are terrorists."
He notes that the idea of a clash of
civilizations has also been adopted by extremist groups outside of the Arab
world, not all of which...