Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
The review deals with varied opinions about Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks
considered offensive in Muslim and
Arab countries amidst calls to expel the papal nuncio in Egypt and put the
interfaith dialogue with the
Vatican on the back burner.
Date of source: Monday, September 18, 2006
The Coptic writer
Jamāl
As‘ad criticizes the church’s creed affirmation conference and accuses it of being an
attempt to
affirm itself as a state.
Date of source: Monday, September 18, 2006
A number of Coptic citizens from the Upper Egyptian village of al- Kushh complained to Pope Shenouda III, accusing clergymen from al-Kushh’ church of violating its regulations and of appropriating some of the church’s money.
Date of source: Monday, September 18, 2006
The death of the Canadian
priest, David Petrescue, is wrapped
in mystery for nobody knows exactly why he was killed or what the
killer’s motivations were. Added to that,
witnesses have given contradictory statements.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
The author says that the forensic report belies the interior ministry’s claims that Muhammad Flayfal, the prime suspect in the case of the Tābā bombings in 2004, was killed with his wife in a shootout with security forces, affirming that Flayfal and his wife were shot from behind at...
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
In this interview, Tal‘at al- Sadāt, a member of parliament and lawyer for Muhammad ‘Alī ‘Abd al- Latīf, demands that the interior minister be relieved from his duties.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
The author, the editor-in-chief of Sawt al- Ummah newspaper, demands the trial of Interior Minister Habīb al-‘Ādlī, after Muhammad ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Latīf, a citizen who was accused of murdering more than 10 people in cold blood, was found innocent.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
Marsīl Mahnī is the first woman to take up a clerical
leadership position within the
Episcopal Church in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
The author recounts that Walīd al-
Husaynī claims to have been dismissed only because he did not want to adhere to the teachings of the
Tablīgh and Da‘wa group.
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.