Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Bishop Bissenti and Gamal Asa’ad were invited to the meeting Rose El-Youssef held to discuss the denominational climate. The former said that he would attend provided that Asa’ad would not, claiming that Asa’ad’s opinions are not in the line with what the church believes. Asa’ad denied this and...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Twenty-seven American reporters are staying at the Lillian Trasher center in Assiut to watch the conditions of Copts there.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Many of the monks and the priests that have been expelled are still carrying out their church-like duties. They do this mainly for financial reasons. To avoid any problems the church should announce the names of the expelled priests to the public. In addition the church does not provide any...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
In 1960, the Mossad recruited an expelled monk to damage the relationship between the Coptic Church and the then president of Egypt. When the matter was became known, it shook all religious and political circles. However, it did no harm to the Egyptian Church.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Coptic sources in California discovered that about seventy thousand young Coptic Egyptian men claimed that they were persecuted and submitted false reports stamped with fake stamps about their wives being raped to get access to work and obtain American citizenship.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2001
[A summary of two articles published in Rose El-Youssef, July 14-20, 2001 (p.65)& Sout Al-Umma, July 11, 2001 (p.18)]
Some readers sent their comments on what the editor-in-chief of Al-Nabaa published about the expelled monk to Rose El-Youssef and Sout Al-Umma. All of them condemned Mahran for...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2001
During the State Security Prosecution’s investigation with the Editor-in Chief of Al-Nabaa, he said he thought he was exposing corruption in a sensitive religious place, which means playing a patriotic role and that when he published anything he took into consideration the basic principles of...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Beside recounting how the state dealt with Al-Nabaa crisis and commenting on the pope’s decision to limit tourism to monasteries, the author expressed the opinion that the crisis of Al-Nabaa negatively affected journalism and pushed 35 MPs to introduce a draft law to sweep away the amount of...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2001
Psychiatry professor Dr. Ahmed Ukasha said that the expelled monk is a psychopath who has the ability to deceive society. The woman with whom he had a sexual intercourse is a character who can be deceived. The journalist is a hasty person who just wants to reach his aims but without considering...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2001
Pope Shenouda’s secretary denied news about the pope suffering from a blood clot in his foot and this being the reason for his absence from the Wednesday lecture for two weeks. He justified his absence by saying it was to calm the youths’ spirits after the events caused by Al-Nabaa.