Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2001 to Friday, September 14, 2001
"The Other Christ" is a book by a Jewish writer, who claims that there was a Christ before Jesus Christ. The deputy Catholic Patriarch said that the book mixed religious truths with cock and bull stories to cause religious strife. A professor at the Azhar University said that the Jews...
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
The Administrative Judiciary Court of Alexandria cancelled the celebration of the mulid of the Jewish rabbi Abu Hasera and annulled a decree from the Minister of Culture, which considered the tomb of Abu Hasera to be one of the Egyptian Coptic and Islamic monuments. It also refused to allow the...
Date of source: Thursday, September 6, 2001
The Grand Imam conveyed his congratulations to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his taking up office. He assured him that the Azhar was paying great attention to inter-religious dialogue which is part of the doctrine of the Qur’an.
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
The church of Anba Antonius in Munqatin, Minya, is still waiting for an official license to use their church building for worship. Coptic villagers built the church in 1991 after 13 years of failed attempts to obtain an official license to built a church in their village. Security authorities...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 5, 2001
The court postponed the lawsuit filed by 12 lawyers to release 15 imprisoned Brotherhood members until October 9. The lawsuit was filed after the constitutional Court annulled item 48 of the Penal Code.
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
It was said that Sheikh Amr Khalid used the scientific method and a free mature way of thinking in explaining the Qur’an and Sunna. However the author provides many examples of how Khalid imitates the ways used by preachers for many centuries. He proves that he is very far from using the scientific...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, member of our Board of Advisors, is no longer dean of the Faculty of Islamic Theology (’Usul el-Din) at the Azhar. He was dean from 1989 to 1991 and from 1997 to 2001. The two periods are a total of six years which is the maximum someone can be the dean of this college. Dr...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 28, 2001
The Prosecution ordered that the son of the owner of Al-Nabaa newspaper and another journalist working on the paper be imprisoned for four days for leading 50 gangsters who broke into the headquarters of the Journalists’ Syndicate and attacked its deputy and its general secretary.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Pope Shenouda appointed the son of his nephew as an accountant in the Bishopric for Ecumenical and Social Services. Some people claimed that the pope appointed him in the Bishopric so he could later take over the post of the director of the Patriarchal office. This made them believe that there is...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
The lawsuit Archpriest Andrawis Aziz filed against Pope Shenouda to cancel the decision that stripped him of his religious title and the report of the State Council Judges which viewed the decisions of the church as administrative decisions pushed Al-Kalema [the word] Center for human rights to...