Date of source: Saturday, March 25, 2000 to Friday, March 31, 2000
The appointment of "non-Azhar" female scholars as theologians, and ignoring those who have graduated from the Azhar has provoked a controversy specially after the case of [a certain woman called] Shereen who taught women Islamic religion without obtaining the relevant permission while dozens of Al...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 15, 2000
... It is so easy for John Paul II, the Vatican’s current pope, to apologize for his ancestors during the Crusades and the Inquisition. This Pope did not cause those problems but if we accept these apologies would our martyrs accept them? We thank the current Pope. He was not the one who caused...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2000
The article describes the visit of the Pope in Egypt. Moussa finds the visit historical and bringing hope to both Muslims and Christians for dialogue. Christians see this as a start for unity between the churches. Many people asked why Pope Shenouda was not present during the reception of Pope...
Date of source: Monday, March 20, 2000
In the international conference "The Third Mediterranean Development Forum" that was inaugurated last week by Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, Queen Rania the Queen of Jordan, and Dr. Atef Ebeid the Prime Minister, the Ibn Khaldoun Center issued a bulletin and distributed it during the conference. The...
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2000
... What we were afraid of happened... and the screams of the Kosheh and Dar Al-Salaam victims started to reach our ears. Days and weeks are passing and nobody is asking about them... No money was given to these victims except one thousand pounds for the killed and the injured. All the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2000
Watani comments on the recent visit of Ibrahim Suleiman, the Minister for Housing, General Mustafa Abdel-Qader, the Minister for Local Development, and General Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Bakr, the Governor of Sohag, to Al-Kosheh.
Date of source: Friday, March 17, 2000
Mustafa Abdel-Qader, Minister for Local Development voiced in this interview the same opinion as in Al-Ahram. "A solution for the problems in Al-Kosheh depends on the political dimension, development and respect for the law." The interview concerned development in general and included Al-Kosheh....
Date of source: Wednesday, March 29, 2000
The Truth, an e-mail service of American Copts, probably related to one of the Coptic associations, sent out a text which claims that Coptic Christians are persecuted in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2000
... I am of the opinion that the one who wants to write about national unity and the political problems of the Copts should deal with this subject in a very objective way and balance this with local and international factors within the framework of human rights and citizenship. One should not just...
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2000 to Friday, March 17, 2000
Today, a celebration is held in the Virgin Mary Church in Maadi to celebrate the twenty-fourth year of finding the Holy Book floating on the surface of the Nile. Archpriest Antonious, priest of the church says that it was very strange that the water did not spoil or drown the heavy book that...