Date of source: Monday, May 27, 2002
Before President Mubarak´s visit to the USA, the National Association of American Copts, headed by Maurice Sadek, issued a statement claiming that Palestinian Muslims have no legal rights in Israel and that a group of Palestinian terrorists had attacked and occupied the Church of the Nativity...
Date of source: Monday, March 4, 2002
Sout Al-Umma reported that lawyer Maurice Sadek sent a man and a woman to the scene of the Beni Walmis riots to cover the events there. Sadek stressed that he did not sent anyone simply because the news agencies reported the riots at the time of their happening in full details.
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
I found a very strange letter sent on the September 2, 2004 to the US president George Bush and nine American pubic figures who are congressmen and members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedoms. This strange letter has a very astonishing title reading “An official at the American...
Date of source: Monday, May 10, 2004
A Coptic group reached an agreement with American officials to establish self-rule for Copts in Egypt. The statement was released by the “National Coptic Association” that described the agreement as a historical step forward that grants the Copts their rights. Maurice Sadeq, [a Copt] who emigrated...
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is about attacks against Egypt in the US encouraged by Coptic immigrants. The author
argues that these attacks always intensifies in the periods that precedes President Mubarak
official visits to the US.
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2004
This report explains the escalations following the alleged conversion of a priest’s wife to Islam. Much background is given to the cultural context that explain why such an issue is so sensitive in Egypt. The report also shows that several of the organizers of the demonstration in Cairo have done...
Date of source: Thursday, April 7, 2005
The website “al-Aqbāt Mutahidoun” [Copts united] posted an article urging Christians
to run for the presidential election. The article states ten reasons to participate.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Expatriate Copts rejected and condemned what some newspapers published as a message from the National Coptic Society to Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. The message requested Sharon’s intervention to solve the Coptic problem in Egypt. This came in a statement to al-Ahālī presented by 14 Coptic...
Date of source: Thursday, December 20, 2001
The press release of the US Copts Association gives a distorted picture of the events around the church in al-Ubur City. The RNSAW asked Coptic Orthodox Bishop Marcos of Shubra Al-Kheima, to whose diocese Medinet Al-Ubur or Al-Ubur City belongs, for information about the events.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Sout Al-Umma published an article about raping 400,000 Christian girls and forcing them to convert to Islam, with the aim of disclosing the lies of emigrant Copts. No one objected although the number was huge. The paper thought that the news about the 70,000 Copts forging police reports to get...