Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001
The suspicions in Mamdouh Nakhla’s press release amount to a conspiracy theory about the death of a priest without having any supporting evidence. Some American Coptic activists tried to convince the RNSAW not to publish this text in the RNSAW because it harms Nakhla’s credibility. The intensive...
Date of source: Thursday, August 31, 2000
The paper received two messages, at around the same time, from some of our Coptic brothers. The first message, which came from two engineers, Sergos Zakhari Maximous and Butros Ibrahim Saleeb, in Alexandria, was full of love towards Egypt. The other was a copy of a page from a magazine issued by...
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2000
In this article, Mr. Sidhom deals with the proposals presented by some Copts in Egypt
for the purpose of building new churches in the cities of the governorates of south and north Sinai, and the way these proposals have been neglected.
Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2000
... The head of the St. Catherine’s monastery filed a complaint against Bishop Makari, the recently-appointed bishop of Sinai, and accused him of trying to deprecate the historical importance of the monastery, which produces most of the tourist traffic in the area. The head of the monastery, Bishop...
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2000
Al-Wafd asks why the Egyptian government neglect the publishing of news of incidents and crises that happen here and do not respond until only after the incidents or crises are reported by international media by which time it is too late. Al-Wafd here presents a detailed description of the recent...
Date of source: Monday, April 27, 1998
Rose el-Yousef describes the conflict between a Coptic Orthodox bishop and the people of a village in his diocese who wanted him to consecrate the son of the village priest as priest which the bishop refused. The Pope responded by taking this village and two other villages away from his diocese.