Date of source: Tuesday, December 12, 2006
The author of the article
argues that the church’s leaders should not be conflated with the church itself,
and that the problems
within the church should be addressed without accusations of heresy.
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
Text of lecture about a declining Christianity in the Middle East. Dalrymple compares between his travels in the mid nineties to when he collected material for his book ‘From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East,’ and recently travelled to the areas he had visited...
Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2006
Transcript of a speech presented by William Dalrymple at the American University in Cairo, highlighting his experiences traveling to Christian Holy sites throughout the Middle East, as well as his personal interpretation of political Islām. He includes references to both historical and present day...
Date of source:
After the big fuss made about a conference entitled, ‘Laymen
and the Church,’ the conference sessions were completed and
recommendations were announced. The following
lines shed light on the conference sessions, on its final recommendations and
on the aroused echoes.
Date of source:
Al-Ahali published a photo of Virgin Mary
on its front page under the title of "The First Photo of
the Holy Virgin." It mentioned that a Muslim woman took this photo
when the strong lights shone above the
towers of the Saint Marcos church in Assiut. al-Akhbar wrote that the Bishopric of...
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The spiritual
phenomenon and lights,
which accompanied the apparition of the Holy Virgin in the province of Assiut have continued for the
third
month. Thousands of people go there wanting to see her and get blessed. Some of them have reportedly been
miraculously
cured of dangerous diseases.
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2000
International
and local media have pursued the spiritual phenomena of the apparition of the Madonna in
Assiut, where more than 10,000
Muslims and Christians have gathered to witness the miracle, which started
on August 17th.
Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2000
The
news about the miraculous apparition of the Holy Virgin Mary over
the Church of Saint Mark in the southern province of Assiut
unleashed controversy about the credibility of
such a spiritual phenomena. While many people confirmed that they had seen
her, some media reports have
shown...
Date of source:
The church of Saint Marcos
in the southern
province of Assiut witnessed a new apparition of the Virgin Mary. Thousands of people saw her surrounded by
white pigeons and flashing lights in a miraculous spectacle, which lasted 6 hours on one occasion. The
priest’s council of
the church in Assiut...
Date of source: Monday, November 6, 2006
The
author discusses possible conflicts amongst the bishops of the Egyptian Coptic Church if Pope Shenouda III of
Alexandria dies, citing opinions from senior church officials who said that Bishop Bīshūy, the
secretary of the Holy Synod, will be a persona non grata because he is stiff and no one...