Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, April 6, 2001
The problem of veiled women [those who wear the hijab (headscarf)] in Europe has surfaced again, especially, after the issue of the recent anti-terrorism law in Britain. What has worsened matters is the European feeling that the hijab is something foreign to their culture and civilization.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Hundreds of Copts who live in North American took to the streets outside the White House to protest the Egyptian government’s sponsored persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt. The demonstration took place while President Mubarak was inside the White House meeting with President Bush. The...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom asked President Bush to raise religious-freedom issues with President Mubarak during the latter’s state visit to the United States. The request follows the return of a Commission delegation from a visit to Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2001
Pope Shenouda said that many of the Copts’ problems had been solved in Mubarak’s time, most importantly the issue of the building of churches. He said that his message to emigrant Copts addressed three points: the court’s decision in the case of Al-Kosheh, the tearing down of a building belonging...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
Excerpts, selected by Al-Ahram, of a message from Pope Shenouda to the Copts in American before President Mubarak’s visit to the USA. Pope Shenouda writes President Mubarak is concerned about national unity and the concerns of the Copts. Pope Shenouda also praises the appeal of the Prosecutor...
Date of source: Saturday, March 24, 2001 to Friday, March 30, 2001
The author is of the opinion that the great attention paid to emigrant Copts increases their false power and makes them more crazy and extremist. Attacking them and disclosing their claims would not silence them but would rather give them the fame they are looking for.
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2001
Pope Shenouda sent Bishop Yo’annis to the United States of America, to explain to emigrant Copts what they cannot understand regarding the reality of the situation in Egypt.
The Pope said that he met the Commission for International Religious Freedom, in order that its members should not rely on...
Date of source: Thursday, March 15, 2001
The Turkish ambassador to Cairo comments on the Armenian’s claims of being persecuted by the Ottaman Empire. He said while the Ottoman Empire was collapsing, the West wanted Turkey to wrongly admit it had persecuted Christian minorities. They also urged the Christian minorities to seek their...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001 to Friday, March 23, 2001
A delegation from the American Committee for International Religious Freedom is heading for Cairo to meet with a number of Egyptian officials and representatives from religious institutions. The committee’s spokesman said that the committee’s main task is to monitor religious status in a number of...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Pope Shenouda accepted a donation from Queen Elizabeth II, assigning an old church building [in England] to the Egyptian Orthodox Church. Pope Shenouda thanked the queen, saying it expressed the good bonding relationship between the Egyptian and British peoples.