Date of source: Friday, May 26, 2000
The Coptic Art Exhibition in France witnessed an unmatched number of visitors in its first days. It aims to make the Egyptian Copts and their artistic works known by exhibiting 230 antiquities borrowed from the Coptic Art museum in Egypt and some important museums in France, Britain, Germany and...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2000
The French have a fascination with anything Egyptian, which is why any exhibition of antiquities in France succeeds. This year, and for the first time, a Coptic antiquities exhibition is organized in the Arab World Institute in Paris.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2000
The Egyptian Exhibition for Coptic Art started in France with an inauguration by Dr. Gaballah Ali Gaballah, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities, as a representative of the Minister of Culture. The exhibition will last until January of the coming year.
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2000
The French’s admiration is directed now to the Coptic art and civilization. The Coptic Art exhibition which the Arabic Institute inaugurated in Paris and the visit of some French journalists to the most important Coptic sites in Egypt, reveal the French interest in Coptic civilization.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 3, 2000
On the 15th of May, Mr. Farouq Hosni, the Minister of Culture, will inaugurate the first exhibition of the Egyptian Coptic monuments under the name of "the Coptic Art in Egypt" in the biggest halls of the Arab World Institute in the heart of the French capital, Paris.
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2000 to Friday, January 14, 2000
The national unity of Muslims and Copts in Egypt is revealed in the architectural similarities in both churches and mosques. The design is very similar from the outside. It only differs from the inside according to each one’s beliefs.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 1999
As recently as last week, an Egyptian mission uncovered a church dating back to the 6th century AD in Qubbet Al-Hawa, on the western bank of the Nile.
Date of source: Sunday, October 24, 1999
Walking through the ancient lanes of the Roman fortress area, surrounded by the earliest-built churches in Cairo, one can find sanctuary form the chaos of modern life with all its noise and pollution.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 26, 1999
Plans for Pope John Paul to visit Iraq are on hold for the moment, the Vatican’s foreign minister said on Monday. Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran told Vatican Radio that preparations for the trip, were in "a pause for reflection."
Date of source: Friday, October 22, 1999
A group calling itself ’An elite of Iraqi thinkers and intellectuals’ criticized the visit of Pope John Paul II to Iraq because the statements made are not in accordance with Islam.