Date of source: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
In a cultural symposium attended by Ahmad Abdel Mo’ti Hegazy in the Kuwaiti Cultural Center, participants discussed the modernizing of the religious discourse. Many controversial issues related to the main subject triggered dialogue and heated answers.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 16, 2004
What is the ultimate religious goal? Is it just prohibiting some kinds of food and drinks? Is it just stipulating some marriage and divorce laws? The answer is no. The ultimate religious goal is for man to learn the great facts that he cannot realize by himself. These facts are what God wants from...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Abeeda, a Palestinian woman of 27 wanted to take revenge for her fiancé’s death at the hands of Israeli soldiers just days before their scheduled wedding date. She wore an explosive belt and walked toward the soldiers, but she was caught and put in prison. Twenty other women are sentenced to the...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Arab Gulf countries have linked Egyptians’ work in their countries with specific hard line religious trends and sects. These Arabs have enforced on us Wahhabi thoughts and their Bedouin, tribal, customs. They have imposed on us monaqaba [veiled including a cover of the face] women, myths,...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Muhammad Al-Zawahry, Ayman Al-Zawahry’s middle brother who is now held in an Egyptian prison, is going through revisions that are similar to those carried out by the Gama’a al-Islamiya at the start of 2002 . Sources close to Muhammad reported that Muhammad has been changing his understanding of the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 14, 2004
The article is an interview with the wife of Aboud Al-Zomor, Wehda, about Sheikh Aboud and Tareq Al-Zomor’s suspended release and their attitudes towards the cease-violence initiative.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 16, 2004
The article is an interview with Abdel Moneim Abu Al-Fotouh, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Questions raised in the interview includes whether it is possible for the Islamic movement to merge with democracy and whether it is possible to have an Islamic movement for whom democracy is...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
A new crisis almost begun in the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate when a Brotherhood member accused Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, Deputy Head of the Wafd opposition party, of being the mouthpiece of the government. This took place during a seminar on political reform in Egypt held in the Journalists’...
Date of source: Saturday, March 6, 2004
The article is a response to an article published in Rose Al-Youssef about the Gospel of Barnabas. The author explains that Gospel of Barnabas did not appear until the 16th century.
Actually this scripture is forged by Europeans in the 15th century and its description of the political and the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 6, 2004
You earlier stated the wish of the Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Egypt to withdraw from the Evangelical denomination. As the president of the Evangelical denomination, I confirm the unity of the national Evangelical churches.