Date of source: Friday, July 27, 2001
Tareq Al-Bishri’s "Muslims and Copts in the Frame of the Patriotic Group" touches upon the relationship between Muslims and Christians in the period from the beginnings of the 19th century until the July 23 Revolution, in 1952. He gave many examples on how this relation was a good one and how both...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that what Sout Al-Umma published about the 70,000 Copts forging police reports to get American nationality was no better than what Al-Nabaa published, saying that Copts are disloyal to Egypt. He added that because of believing in the good attentions of the paper,...
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: Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Sout Al-Umma published an article about raping 400,000 Christian girls and forcing them to convert to Islam, with the aim of disclosing the lies of emigrant Copts. No one objected although the number was huge. The paper thought that the news about the 70,000 Copts forging police reports to get...
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2001
The Church of the Holy Virgin in Beni Suef got the state security approval for the erection of a new roof. Also a presidential decree to the effect that the church was licensed to replace the old timber roof with a new concrete one was issued. But when the renovation work started, security forces...
Date of source: Saturday, July 28, 2001
Young people in Egypt are divided between two groups. One group finds in Islam an identity and a belonging. Another group that does not know a certain identity, refuses to be put in a certain frame and has doubts about all the political and intellectual trends. Sheikh Amr Khalid is the only bridge...
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2001
The public opinion in Egypt is politically sick. Religion came to occupy the place of politics. People in charge might think they could distract the youth away from being politically active with religion, and they might imagine that they can use the political slumbers of the youth for their own...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
The author tried to imagine what the late Christian writer Louis Awad would have said about Al-Nabaa crisis if he had been alive. He believes that all the great enlightened writings of Awad shared the Coptic and Muslim voices in its condemnation of Al-Nabaa conspiracy against national unity.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Bishop Bissenti and Gamal Asa’ad were invited to the meeting Rose El-Youssef held to discuss the denominational climate. The former said that he would attend provided that Asa’ad would not, claiming that Asa’ad’s opinions are not in the line with what the church believes. Asa’ad denied this and...
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2001 to Friday, July 27, 2001
Rumors say that Pope Shenouda cancelled the celebration of his joining the monastic order because of the sad times the Church is living through due to Al-Nabaa crisis. Others believe that he did so as an attempt to get a stronger verdict against Al-Nabaa’s Editor-in-Chief. The correct explanation...