Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 10, 2005
Pope Shenouda has always cited incidents of assaults on churches and Copts by some members of al-Jamā‘at al-Islāmīya, accusing the police of slackness in dealing with the assailants.
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 3, 2004
The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates the Golden Jubilee, fiftieth anniversary, of the consecration of Pope Shenouda III as a monk on the 17th of July. Pope Shenouda was consecrated a monk on the 17th July 1954.
The celebration of this event will be held on the 17th of July in the Monastery of St...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 3, 2005
Madīna al-Nour, situated in the district of al-Zāwiya al-Hamrā’, Cairo. It is one of the typical areas for rural immigration, where a rapid transition of lifestyles and values can be seen. Poverty excludes the inhabitants of Madīna al-Nour from the splendors of jet-set Cairo, but globalization also...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 21, 2001
News often gets reported without checking the facts. This is what WorldNetDaily.com did when it reported about the press release of the US Copts Association. Press releases such as this one create confusion and make Copts in the US grow apart from Copts in Egypt. Some activists in the US believe...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 15, 2001 to الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 21, 2001
Could the current US-led coalition war against Afghanistan result in tensions between Egypt’s two major religions? In Lebanon the split between Christians and Muslims has widened as each has taken the opposite side. Egypt, however, has experienced nothing of this kind.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 18, 2001
The article gives all the details about how Al-Nabaa crisis started and about the legal procedures that were taken against the paper. It also gives part of the transcripts of the Higher State Security’s interrogations with the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Nabaa. In the interrogations, the editor in chief...
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 19, 2001
During the demonstrations against al-Nabaa in the cathedral, the police held about 36 boys, of whom three were kept for 35 days. It is remarkable that the president of the US Copts Association started a campaign to free them AFTER they had been released. He also claimed that the arrested youths...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 13, 2001
Pope Shenouda declared that it was an impossible task to reach a reconciliation agreement with Al-Nabaa. In reply to Mahran’s claim that he and the pope were friends, the pope said if Mahran was his friend, he would not have harmed the Egyptian Church.
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 16, 2001
The author commented on Tareq Al-Bishri’s article, in which he compared the attitude of the State towards the Coptic youth demonstrations against what Al-Nabaa published to the Azhar students’ demonstrations against the publication of the "Banquet for Seaweed." He believes that the State was very...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 6, 2001
Pope Shenouda described the way President Mubarak handled the crisis as very wise and described the reaction of the Journalists’ Syndicate as brave and strict. He thanked the Muslims of Egypt who supported the Copts during their crisis, the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar and the Mufti.