Date of source: Tuesday, April 29, 2003
The author gives a brief background about St. Anthony [Antonius] who founded the first monastery in Egypt in 305 A.D. His monastery is very important on the religious and tourism level. That is why the Ministry of Culture has prepared a project to reconstruct it.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 to Sunday, August 21, 2005
Today I go back to a problem which I tackled on several occasions during the past months in Watani’s ‘Problems on Hold’ series, and which concerns complaints from readers against the Civil Register Authority (CRA).
Date of source: Monday, July 25, 2005
Pope Shenouda’s efforts have succeeded in solving the problem of the Fayoum Monastery’s priests. The crisis started when the Fayoum priest, Abrām, realized that the nine priests were violating the laws of priesthood in many ways, such as eating alone although the laws demand that they share.
Date of source: Thursday, July 14, 2005
The Pope arrived an hour late at his weekly Wednesday Audience. This triggered speculations about his deteriorating health. “I am ready to die to get an apostate back to his religion and whoever thinks otherwise is not a Christian,” the Pope said.
Date of source: Sunday, June 19, 2005
Public Prosecutor Māhir ‘Abd al-Wāhid ordered the release of 463 persons suspected of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, but retained the custody of 37 others on charges of staging unlicensed marches in several areas in Egypt on May 3, 6 and 14, 2005.
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2005
Most of the decisions of the past century in Assiut have involved only the demolition, re-construction or restoration of historical Coptic churches, but now a new church is to be built.
Date of source: Friday, September 23, 2005
Mamdouh Nakhla, who submitted a proposal to establish a Coptic party, answers questions about the objectives of such a party.
Date of source: Saturday, September 24, 2005 to Friday, September 30, 2005
An article about Coptic prophecies of future events.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Historically, in Al-Bahnasa alone, some twenty thousands nuns lived in convents. Many convents were also built in Fayoum, Cairo, Alexandria, and Lower Egypt in general during the fifth century. Most of these convents were destroyed during the Mamluk age In Cairo, four convents only survived.
Date of source: Thursday, March 11, 2004
The media secretariats in the NDP’s branches in the governorates started discussing the working paper that concerns the development of the religious discourse.
The religious discourse that we need should play a central role in forming our religious conscience, which cannot develop without the...