Date of source: Monday, February 21, 2000
Next Thursday, Pope John Paul II, the Pope of the Vatican will be arriving to Egypt. Due to this occasion, we have asked what are the Catholic problems and concerns that await the great Pope of Rome? What do they want him to do in the coming period? The answer came to confirm the fact that what...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
This visit is considered an answer to the generous invitation that President Mubarak gave to Pope John Paul II. Father Rafiq Graish, pastor of Saint Kyrollos Church for the Roman Catholics and the responsible of the media center that is assigned to supervise the preparations of the visit said: "...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000
An interview of Bishop Kyrollos William, Coptic Catholic bishop of Assiut, regarding the visit of Pope John Paul II.
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
The statements of the German bishop Karl Liman on the health condition of Pope John Paul II has broken the iron wall hiding the health condition of the old man who is 81-years old It raised discussions that were never raised in public before about the probabilities of the resignation of the Pope...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
"His Holiness: Pope John Paul II and the Hidden History of our Time" is the title of the book issued by the American Carl Bernstein [and Marco Politi]. It claims that Washington and the Vatican worked closely together in the final years of the Cold War.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
His Holiness Pope John Paul II will visit Saint Catherine’s monastery. His Holiness had made known his wish to visit the monastery to see the bush at which God talked to Moses.
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
Pope John Paul II will go on Saturday to Saint Catherine’s mountain to make true an old wish that he has been waiting to fulfill. In the monastery of Saint Catherine a service led by the Pope and attended by 300 people chosen by the Catholic Church will be performed...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
Pope Shenouda will not attend the Mass that Pope John Paul II will pray in the covered hall. The reason is that the rituals of the Mass are different between the Catholic and the Orthodox rites. It is expected that Pope Shenouda will send a representative to the Mass.
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
This article gives some of the historical background to the disagreement between the churches covering the Council of Chalcedon, and then the Council of Ephesus in 428 AD when the Patriarch of Constantinople stated that Mary was not holy and that she was only the mother of Jesus, not more...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
It was expected that the visit of Pope John Paul II would start in Iraq, as did the trip of Abraham. He would then go to Egypt passing by Palestine. It was hoped that this trip would draw attention to the suffering of the Iraqi people and the hunger that was harming children before adults. However...