Date of source: Wednesday, April 24, 2002
The leader of the Islamic Liberation Party is a famous fundamentalist lawyer who was detained many times under the Emergency Law as a dangerous person for security reasons. Lawyer Montasser Al-Zayyat presented a request to the State Security Prosecution to allow him to examine the investigation...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 7, 2002
The highlights of the voyage of Paul Perry with Cornelis Hulsman through Upper Egypt; the discovery of a fifth century cave church at Deir Abu Hinnis (Malawi) and the photograph of an apparition of light in Assiut which was acknowledged by metropolitan Michael of Assiut as a “spiritual phenomena...
Date of source: Monday, November 11, 2002
The author expresses his surprise at the statement of Pope Shenouda concerning the right of the Copts to occupy leadership positions. He believes that the pope should not have given such a statement in a time when the Middle East witnesses dramatic events.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Father Basilious from the monastery of Anba Bola issued a statement on behalf of the monasteries of Beni Suef and on behalf of the Council of Monks, expressing their condemnation of the Israeli practices against the Palestinian and President Arafat. They asked the international community to take...
Date of source: Monday, November 11, 2002
As usual, the report of the US Secretary of States for religious freedom in Egypt this year accuses Egypt of exercising religious persecution against the Christian minority. The US Secretary of State depends on emigrant Copts in writing its reports. Emigrant Copts have relations with organizations...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Sheikh Amr Khaled traveled to London at the beginning of Ramadan. Wales University has granted him a four-year scholarship to prepare a Ph.D. thesis on the biography of the Prophet Mohammed.
Date of source: Sunday, April 21, 2002
Egyptian State Security Prosecution investigated 100 members –including four Britons- of the banned Islamic Liberation Party. The Prosecution charged 55 of them of joining an illegal group whose aim was to overthrow the established regime. The British Embassy in Egypt demanded to be updated with...
Date of source: Friday, November 22, 2002
Visit to the monasteries of Makarios, St. Bishoi and the Syrian organized by RNSAW.
Report on the succession of Pope Shenouda.
Discussion about supposedly anti-semitic news in Washington Post.
Date of source: Saturday, May 4, 2002
Christian reporter Nagy George, critical of US Coptic activists, passed away.
Report on a visit to the monasteries of al-Muharraq, al-Qussia and Assiut.
Description of the conversations on difficulties around expanding the Monastery and Muslim-Christian relations in the area with Bishop Thomas of...
Date of source: Thursday, April 4, 2002
Lord Cromer, the British High Commissioner to Egypt during the British occupation of Egypt, wrote a book called “The Modern Egypt.” In this book he claimed that Islam is the reason behind the backwardness of Egypt and that the Orthodox Church is the least among the Christian denomination in...