Date of source: Friday, June 22, 2001
The author makes comparisons between the way this crisis, caused by a newspaper report, and other similar crises have been dealt with. He feels that the Ministry of Interior is dealing with each opposing power according to their influence. He believes the demonstrations should have urged the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2001
The Supreme Council for the Press started a lawsuit to ban Al-Nabaa. The council condemned publication of improper photographs and threatening society’s values. Some council members expressed their conviction that freedom of the press must be responsible. Mamdouh Mahran testified that he was the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2001
The article in Sout al-Umma dated May 9 is based on the response of the Monastery of Makarios to the RNSAW, 2001, week 08A, art. 26. The article states the Monastery sent the response to the RNSAW in English. This is not true. The Monastery responded in Arabic, the RNSAW translated this into...
Date of source: Monday, May 7, 2001
A Christian mother and Muslim father are battling in a US civil court for custody of their 3 small children. The father has asked the courts to give him sole custody of the children in order to ensure that the children to be "influenced" by Christianity. It does appear that the court will strip the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001 to Friday, March 23, 2001
A delegation from the American Committee for International Religious Freedom is heading for Cairo to meet with a number of Egyptian officials and representatives from religious institutions. The committee’s spokesman said that the committee’s main task is to monitor religious status in a number of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 10, 2001 to Friday, March 16, 2001
A new group, lead by Maurice Sadeq, was formed to defame Egypt. This usually happens whenever President Mubarak is about to visit the United States. The group claimed that Christians are persecuted in Egypt. Almost all Christian societies refused to take part in a meeting the group called for.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 28, 2001
Readers of the Copts Daily Digest were upset about the article of Dr. Nabil Luka Bebawi in Al-Ahram, February 22, 2001. They saw his article as a defense for the verdict of February 5.
Date of source: Thursday, January 11, 2001
Introducing AWR press reviews. Growing media attention for RNSAW work.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
An Egyptian Coptic lawyer sued to stop state television rebroadcasting the Film "Awan Al-Ward," believing that its topic is offensive to the Coptic community. This is because it mentioned the marriage of a Christian woman to a Muslim man.
Date of source: Thursday, October 19, 2000
The author believes that the anti-Jewish and Christian sermon in Gaza is dispisable but it is unfair to use this to denounce Muslim leaders in general. Many Christian Palestinians play a prominent role in their society and are like their Muslim compatriots opposed to Israeli policy.