Date of source: Tuesday, July 24, 2001
A Saudi young man claimed owning the two oldest Biblical parchments. The two parchments are about 1500 years old and are in good condition.
Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2001
Pope Shenouda prepared a request to submit to the People’s Assembly for it to decide upon the Christian unified personal statues law. This new law, which specifies nine reasons for divorce, will solve the problems of Christians who got divorced but cannot get permission to re-marry.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 24, 2001
The Crusades were a Christian war against Arabs and Muslims. They erupted with seeming religious aims. They helped in reforming the monastic system and aimed at uniting the Western and the Eastern church. It was a chance for European knights who owned no lands in their own countries to own some...
Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2001
Sout Al-Umma apologized to the Copts regarding what it published about the 70,000 Copts forging police reports to get American nationality. The apology was made with the intention of preventing the problem from escalating again and causing problems the same way Al-Nabaa did.
Date of source: Thursday, July 5, 2001
Pope Shenouda avoided talking about the crisis of Al-Nabaa in his last weekly lecture. He confirmed the situation of peace and comfort within the Coptic community under the media campaigns and the legal procedures that supported them throughout the crisis. The Christian Al-Kiraza magazine...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
The Media and Culture Committee in the Shura Council accused foreign parties of trying to incite sectarian strife between Muslims and Christians by using tabloids and warned against any new restrictions being imposed on the freedom of press.
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
The American president will visit the Vatican Pope as part of his attempts to get closer to American Catholics. He also asked the Congress to agree on his proposition concerning financing the religious benevolent organizations.
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2001
Mahgoub Omar, who is known for being a writer specialized on the Palestinian issue, is a Christian Orthodox doctor. He believes that Islam should be the reference point for the whole nation, as it is Islamic in the first place and because if Islam is the reference point for both Muslims and...
Date of source: Friday, July 13, 2001
Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s lawyer decided to lodge an appeal against his seven-year prison sentence within the appeals procedure’s time limit. Despite Ibrahim’s deteriorating health condition, Salih asked him to stop asking to be released because of it.
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2001
Coptic writer Sadeq Aziz expressed the opinion that the Islamic Shari’a does not contradict Christianity and that most of what it contains agrees with Moses’ law. He added that Christianity does not have any positive laws and that the teachings of Jesus Christ cannot be applied as laws governing a...