Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 1999
Pope John Paul, expected to visit Iraq early in 2000, inveighed yesterday against continued sanctions against Baghdad, saying many Iraqis had died because of lack of medicines. "I wish to express once against my solidarity with the Iraqi people and I am particularly close in prayer and hope to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 2, 1999
Last Thursday, both Pope Shenouda and Dr. Sayed Tantawi received the British Caravan to Support the Iraqi People, headed by George Gallaway, vice-president of the Committee of External Affairs in the British House of Commons. Both Pope Shenouda and sheikh Tantawi declared their sympathy to this...
Date of source: Saturday, July 30, 2005
Shaykh Fawzī Fādil al-Zifzāf comments on the claims that he, on behalf of the Azhar, signed the Ambassadors of Peace’s ‘Document of Religious Rights’ which prevents intervention to prevent Christian proselytizing or evangelizing a Western Christian doctrine that runs counter with the Eastern...
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
The controversial ‘Document of Religious Rights’ signed in April 2005 by the then head of the Azhar’s Interfaith Dialogue Committee, Shaykh Fawzī al-Zifzāf with visiting U.S. Christian clerics has made headlines in Egyptian press.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 5, 2006
The author criticizes the state’s emergency law, in effect for nearly 25 years, which has helped the state impose its repressive authority on the people and silence opposition parties and views deemed as violating the ordinary permitted framework.
Date of source: Monday, June 12, 2006
Father Matta al-Maskīn, spiritual father of the Monastery of St. Macarius, passed away. A renewed request for NGO status led by former Egyptian Minister of Tourism Dr. Mamdouh al-Biltagui
Date of source: Saturday, March 21, 1998
Briefing on New York Churches council’s visit to Egypt saying Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt are very different from what is said and published in the USA.
Date of source: Monday, March 16, 1998
Gamal Asad discovered that some Copts refuse to view themselves as Arabs and writes about the implications of them considering themselves as the only real Egyptians and Muslims not. The notion is not only dangerous but also false.
Date of source: Monday, March 16, 1998
The Coptic author visited the USA and compared American publications on the situation of the Copts with what he has experienced in Egypt. Copts, the author believes, have become a hot issue that the enemies of Egypt will continue to bring up now and again.
Date of source: Saturday, March 21, 1998
The closure of El-Destour leads to a debate on the role of the press.