Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 1, 2000
The Cairo Emergency Court decided yesterday to reject the court case to ban the book "My Father Adam" written by Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin. The court said that there was no direct and personal benefit for the plaintiff.
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 18, 2000
It was expected that the visit of Pope John Paul II would start in Iraq, as did the trip of Abraham. He would then go to Egypt passing by Palestine. It was hoped that this trip would draw attention to the suffering of the Iraqi people and the hunger that was harming children before adults. However...
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 12, 2000 to الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 18, 2000
... Your Holiness Pope John Paul II, Pope of Vatican: Egypt is a country in which the crescent mingles with the cross. It has mosques and churches and everybody worships God Almighty. There are no sectarian conflicts at all and [this is] especially [so] in the era of President Mubarak. For the...
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 12, 2000 to الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 18, 2000
Terrorism has departed leaving an empty space in its place, the domination over which a long line of new extremists are now fighting. They are the stars of noisy religious speeches on tapes and in books. ... The religious cassette gets higher selling rates than Amr Diab or Kazem Al-Saher [popular...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 3, 2000
I am writing for the third time about the problem of Al-Kosheh. Discussing this problem leads us to the complaints of Copts - some of which we mentioned in the last article. Let’s complete discussing these complaints...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 24, 2000
We discussed with Bishop Bissenti the possibility of the presence of foreign fingers in the matter, about the American law of religious persecution - whether it had tempted the Copts to start problems from inside Egypt, and about the suggestion of a delegation from [the US] Congress visiting Egypt...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2000
The peacemaking committee has not completed its work in Al-Kosheh. They have a few major problems.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 22, 2000 to الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 28, 2000
Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar and Pope Shenouda III both spoke in a lecture entitled: "Religions, a source for values - A future vision". At the conclusion of the lecture, His Holiness [the Pope] said: "Being here with His Eminence the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar is the...
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 1, 2000
A schedule of a visit of Pope John Paul II to Egypt is given.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 20, 2000
The Vatican officially announced during a press conference the date and program of the visit of Pope John Paul II to Egypt. The 3-day visit will start on 25 February, during which the Pope will meet with President Hosni Mubarak ... The Pope will also meet with His Eminence the Grand Sheikh of the...