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Date of source: Sunday, July 15, 2001
[text taken from Watani website]
Many Egyptian intellectuals believe that the crisis of Al-Nabaa has placed before the society the reality of the Coptic grievances in Egypt and the imperative need to open the Coptic file and draw it wide open in complete transparency, with no hesitation. They are...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 10, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that President Mubarak and Pope Shenouda did not discuss, in their recent meeting, the issue of the status of Copts in Egypt or that of sectarian strife but just discussed the general problems of the country.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 3, 2001
Tomorrow the Egyptian Administrative Court is to end the controversy about Al-Nabaa newspaper. It will also look into two cases filed by Mamdouh Mahran. In the first he tries to override a verbal ruling by the Minister of Interior prohibiting the press house from operating and in the second he...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
Pope Shenouda described the way President Mubarak handled the crisis as very wise and described the reaction of the Journalists’ Syndicate as brave and strict. He thanked the Muslims of Egypt who supported the Copts during their crisis, the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar and the Mufti.
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.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Fahmi Howeidi believes that anger ruined the right way of handling the case of the expelled monk. Instead of regarding it as an attempt to attack the public system, violating the traditions of the journalism profession, it was regarded as a matter concerning only Copts. The angry people did not...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
Pope Shenouda’s secretary and Bishop Musa stated that Pope Shenouda expressed his gratitude to president Hosni Mubarak and the executive and judiciary authorities for their responses in the recent crisis caused by Al-Nabaa newspaper.
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2001
During a Rotary meeting, Pope Shenouda refused to comment on the incidents caused by Al-Nabaa newspaper, explaining it was in the hands of justice now. He said that he trusted the court which would give everyone his right. He added that anyone can make mistakes but to insult the monastery that...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 29, 2001
The Syrian president welcomed Pope Shenouda, the Patriarch of Antioch, the president of the Evangelical Council, the Archbishop of Baalbak and the General Secretary of the Middle East Council of Churches. He praised the patriotic stance of Pope Shenouda.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Dr. John Watson, a consultant to the Archbishop of Canterbury on Coptic affairs, said that there are very few people, in the West, who know a lot about Islam. People in the West usually say that al-Islambuli murdered Sadat and that sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman is Islam. Dr. Watson said he taught...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.