Date of source: Wednesday, June 21, 2006
The Evangelical
Church in Misr al-Jadīda has planned to screen the movie, ‘The Da Vinci Code,’
and to follow the
screening with a panel discussing the contents of the book, upon which the movie was
based.
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2006
The National Council for Human Rights called for passing a bill of worship proposed by Muhammad Jūwualī, the head of the Committee for Suggestions and Complaints in this legislative term.
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2006
Engineer Sāmī al-Bihirī, a cynical writer currently living in the Unites States of America speaks about challenges for Copts in Egypt, internal affairs and terrorism.
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
Two weeks ago, al-Fajr published a letter sent in by a Bahā’ī reader, who discussed in detail the principles of the Bahā’ī faith. In its issue of June 19, 2006, al-Fajr publishes two more letters sent in by Muslim readers responding to what they described as falsehoods contained in the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
The Egyptian parliament yesterday debated the movie, ‘The Da Vinci Code’ at the request of several Coptic members, who demanded a ban on both the movie and the book for being blasphemous to Jesus Christ. The Egyptian minister of culture, Dr. Fārouq Husnī, vowed to ban the movie and to pull the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
The author discusses Europe’s dilemma of how to absorb Muslims into liberal
democracies,
whether through assimilation, integration or accommodation.
Date of source: Sunday, June 11, 2006
The author deals with the issue of democracy and how Egypt was a liberal state until the
outbreak
of the 1952 revolution that brought a military regime in power, which disbanded all political
parties and
established a one-party system with no clear political agenda in mind.
Date of source: Saturday, June 10, 2006 to Friday, June 16, 2006
A review of the
death of Father Matta al-Maskīn, who led a mystical life at the desert and was an inspiration to many
young
monks, at the age of 87.
Date of source: Sunday, June 11, 2006
The
author tackles the visit
paid by Pope Benedict XVI to Auschwitz, Poland, where the Nazi German army
committed brutal massacres of European
Jews and others in what is known as the Holocaust.
Date of source: Sunday, June 11, 2006
The author criticizes the way the state is dealing with Coptic problems, which only led to
deteriorating relationships between Muslims and Christians in Egypt, and calls for quick political and
constitutional reforms as the only way out of this serious dilemma.