Date of source: Thursday, February 17, 2000
Sub-title: The Vatican emphasizes its refusal of Israeli dominion over eastern Jerusalem and [its] fait-accompli policies
His Holiness Pope John Paul II is to arrive to Cairo next Thursday on the first visit of the pope of the Vatican to Egypt in response to the invitation of President Hosni...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
The Vatican Pope meets in his visit to Egypt with Pope Shenouda, which is a historical meeting by all measures. The disagreement in beliefs between the Orthodox and the Catholics starts with the state Virgin Mary was born in. Catholics believe she was born like Jesus [that is, without the original...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
Christians in Egypt constitute more than twenty-seven denominations. The Coptic Orthodox is the majority denomination, followed by Coptic Catholics and then Evangelicals who have several denominations. There is just a difference in belief between these denominations, it is not a conflict or a...
Date of source: Thursday, February 17, 2000
Counselor Maher Abdel-Wahed, the Public Prosecutor, emphasized that no one proved guilty in Al-Kosheh’s incidents would escape trial under any circumstances. He pointed out that investigations over Al-Kosheh’s incidents have not yet ended but they are on the right track. He added that the results...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Sub-title: Local senior officials are powerless... the government-owned media foment tension
The Egyptian Organization for Human rights issued a report about the results the organization’s fact-finding mission reached concerning the latest incidents of Al-Kosheh in [the region of] Sohag. At the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
Everybody, Muslims and Copts are meeting in a workshop prepared by the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development for the preparatory and secondary stage students in Faayed. They come from everywhere in Egypt to study the suggested topics for the educational curricula for the preparatory and secondary...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
In the article of Mr. Said Abdel-Khaleq in Al-Wafd dated January 19, 2000, reporting on an interview with him Father Makarious Youssef found some statements attributed to him, which he says he did not make. He responds in this article.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
Egypt will receive this week His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Catholics number 300 thousand citizens in Egypt. In spite of their different denominations, not one of them came out to claim that there is persecution in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
The Coptic Union that represents a group of fanatic emigrant Copts in America failed to perform a march in front of the American Foreign Ministry. In the light of the faxes and the letters before the march, everything that was done was expected. However, it was not expected that they would seek...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
On my last visit to Egypt, I noticed a genuine national revolution against religious fanaticism and terrorism, a revolution against exploiting religion that calls for love and peace. In Egypt we find love between neighbors and love of the unity of a nation in which equality in opportunities has...