Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
Muslims are in a difficult situation because of the inability of others to distinguish the difference between various Muslims groups. The world is full of struggles, clashes and disputes. These occur in countries where the majority are Hindu, Christian or Buddhist just as they do where Muslims are...
Date of source: Friday, August 27, 1999
Islamist sheikh Gamal Qutb condemned Naguib Mahfouz and Nasr Abu Zeid and declared their thoughts contradictory to Islam. He criticized the use of their books in universities. Sheikh Qutb anticipated that Islam will predominate in America and Europe soon.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 1999
Three scholars Dr. Abdel Halim Awas, Dr. Gaber Qamiha and Da’iya (mission) sheikh Mohammed Sultan stated their opinions in Al-Ahrar’s campaign. They said that the deletion of the Sunna was considered as a betrayal to God. Islam without Sunna was the goal that America, the Zionists, Europe and the...
Date of source: Monday, August 30, 1999
Atef Helmi referred in his article to Rick Joyner’s "The Harvest" as an example of Western Charismatic thinking. An outline and evaluation of Joyner’s book is given. Hulsman points to the danger of a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
Hulsman asked three Evangelical pastors in Egypt to comment on the two Rose el-Yousef articles. These pastors are certainly not happy with the publications in Rose el-Yousef. Their criticism, however, focuses on the tensions between churches in Egypt and para-Christian organizations, the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
Atef Helmi, an Egyptian Catholic, focuses his criticism on what he considers superstition of Egyptian Charismatics who are linked to American Charismatic movements.
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
The RNSAW gave a summary of both Rose el-Yousef articles in RNSAW, week 28, edition July 9-15, 1999. Since several readers asked for the full text that text is given in this issue together with comments from Evangelical Egyptian church leaders.
Wa’el Lotfi writes about the opposition of Egypt’s...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
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Egyptian newspaper Akbar El-Yom has caught the anger of the Holocaust research centre Simon Wiesenthal in Washington for an anti-Semitic statement by one of its writers.
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, August 25, 1999
A British court on August 16 ordered two suspects to remain in custody to face extradition hearings in connection with last year’s deadly bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Magistrate Ronald Bartle remanded the two men - Ibrahim Hussein Abdel Hadi Eidarous, 42, and Adel Mohammed Al...