Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 18, 2000
Metropolitan Athanasius of Beni Suef passed away, 77 years old, on November 16 after several years of ill health. The author writes about some of his personal experiences with the bishop who was a man striving for Christian unity and dialogue with Muslims.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 8, 2000
Editorial Board RNSAW:Drs. Cornelis Hulsman had been invited to give a lecture on his work for the RNSAW at a conference on "Media and Interreligious Dialogue" in Vienna, Austria on November 8 and 9. The conference had been organized by the International Press Institute in Vienna, the Department of...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 27, 2000
In response to reports from Israel that Palestinian Christians are fleeing the areas under control by the Palestinian Authority, presumably out of fear for Muslims, Drs. Hulsman found that it may be good to tell the story of Father Philloumenos from the Greek Orthodox church about Jacob’s well.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2000
On October 25, the Jerusalem Post published an article about hundreds of Palestinian Christians fleeing the Palestinian territories. An Israeli spokesman referred in this regard to a radical sermon of Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya. This article, like the sermon of the Palestinian preacher,...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 23, 2000
Hulsman called some Christians in Samalut and learned from them about the problems around renovating a church. He also describes the difficulties with church renovation in Egypt in general which is not so much a matter of obtaining a permit or not but depends a lot on local bureaucrats and...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 14, 2000
Fawzy Tag El-Din wrote in the Sout Al-Azhar of October 6 about Coulson’s work on Malik Ibn Anas and says he is a Dutch orientalist who is skeptical about the Sunna. The RNSAW consulted two scholars at Leiden University, which has a centuries old tradition of the study of Islam and Arabic. Dr. J.J.G...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 18, 2007
Danger of Christian students isolating themselves in small groups in Egyptian universities.
Discussing Father van Nispen’s book “Muslims and Christians, brothers before God” at Cairo University
Dutch Christian group showing interest in AWR.
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 31, 2000
Bishop Egidio Sampieri has unexpectedly passed away on Monday August 28. The bishop died of a heart attack and is mourned by Catholics in Egypt.
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 10, 2000
There were no further questions and no deals were struck. "We do not yet know the status of the Ibn Khaldun Center, but will be petitioning soon for its reopening."
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 9, 2000
When Hulsman saw his interview published in Akher Sa’a in its issue of July 26 he found that Akher Sa’a had not mentioned that Hulsman opposed the arrest of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and found it harmful for Egypt’s image abroad. He also stated that much of the Egyptian press had been engaged in...