Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 25, 2003
On Friday September 19, 2003 at 6.00 a.m. a large number of security officers and soldiers had closed the three roads leading to the Coptic Orthodox church of the Martyr George in a village called Besri on the outskirts of the city of Assiut. AWR received from different sources a report of the US...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 3, 2003
A correspondence with US journalist Hazel Heijer and Dr. Larry Levine, an Orthodox Jew from New York, shows that Palestinian claims for compensation for lost property and demands to be able to return to Israel within the green line (border prior to 1967) resulted in Jewish claims for compensation...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 6, 2003
The differences between the monastery of Antonius and the Red Sea governorate were blown up in Western media, fired up by Coptic activists in the West. The monasteries wish for protecting peace and quiet in the area was understandable but their method of protesting is questionable. Egyptian...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 20, 2003
The Wafd article is a serious distortion of the CIDI report on anti-Semitism and the press release of June 13. Many claims are highly exaggerated. AWR summarized the CIDI report, compared this with the article in the Wafd and provided some comments on the CIDI report.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 20, 2003
Egyptologist Lutfi Sherif led an AWR-visit to the land of Goshen in March 2003 and knows the discussion of archeologists on the Exodus quite well. Excavations in the Eastern Delta have become politically sensitive. This article mentions that the claim that the tomb of Alexander the Great was found...
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 9, 2003
Dr. Selim Naguib and Pastor McNeely have been writing inflammatory letters falsely claiming that Muslims do kidnap Christian girls in Egypt. There is no reason to doubt their sincerity but they have followed their sentiments without checking facts. The consequences of such false claims are severe...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 18, 2006
Metropolitan Abba Seraphim’s critique of a paper by Bishop Munīr on the relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt, presented at the annual interfaith dialogue meeting of the Anglican communion and the Permanent Committee of the Azhar al-Sharif for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 28, 2006
Bishop Marqus comments on Bishop Munīr’s text on “Christian minorities in the Islamic world; an Egyptian perspective.”
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 28, 2006
Background information on Metropolitan Seraphim, head of the British Orthodox Church.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 2, 2003
Rose Al-Youssef reported in its issue of June 21-27, 2003 about “Jewish extremists accuse Sharon of being lenient” [AWR, week 25, art. 11]. The article gave the impression that some fringe “nuts” are generally accepted by Jews while in fact the vast majority of Jews are embarrassed by such radicals...