Date of source: Friday, August 25, 2006
Much to
the surprise of many Egyptian intellectuals and
political science experts, the director of the Ibn Khaldūn
Center for Development Studies (ICDS), Dr.
Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, recently announced
that he was ready to mediate between
political Islamic groups, in particular the Muslim...
Date of source: Monday, August 28, 2006
Some
Evangelical priests have demanded the
modification of the constitution of the church to cope with the changes of
the present time.
Date of source: Monday, August 28, 2006
A student at the Institute of Coptic Studies denies that
Orthodox Copts are
fundamentalists and asserts that they simply have an implicit faith while a Catholic writer
calls for the
Orthodox Church to renounce its fundamentalist language and to open to all other denominations.
Date of source: Sunday, August 27, 2006
The author writes about the Virgin Mary feast which celebrates both the Virgin’s fasting and the memory of the Holy Family’s journey in the Upper Egyptian area of Assiut. A visit to an old cave that housed the Virgin and young Jesus is an essential part of the festivities.
Date of source: Saturday, August 26, 2006 to Friday, September 1, 2006
Yuhanna Nushī shows some of the mistakes found in
‘Adil Jrijis article
about the new version of the Bible published in Rose al-Yūsuf.
Date of source: Saturday, August 26, 2006 to Friday, September 1, 2006
Adil Jirjis Sa‘d’s article arouses a lot of anger. Father Rif‘at
Sa‘īd responds to some of the claims mentioned in the article.
Date of source: Saturday, August 26, 2006 to Friday, September 1, 2006
Dr. Mina
Badī‘ shows the wrong information published about the new version of the Bible.
Date of source: Friday, August 25, 2006
The author reviews an old article of Pope Shenouda published
in 1951. The
article expresses the Pope’s opinion on the idea of establishing a churches union.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The author discusses the term "Christian Zionism" and its origin and
argues that Zionism should not be
described as Christian on the grounds that the Catholic and Orthodox churches as
well as mainstream
Protestants have rejected Zionism on a religious basis.
Date of source: Monday, August 28, 2006
The Bar’s Committee of the Islamic
Sharī‘ah, overwhelmingly
dominated by Muslim Brotherhood supporters, has held its
annual summer camp on the North Coast. The
author of the article, Ahmad Imbābī, outlines claims about
the committee’s attempts to recruit fresh
law graduates and to finance its...