Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2000
A responsible official source stated that the report of police intervention in the incidents at St. Catherine’s monastery and the arrest of 150 persons are completely untrue. He added that an individual illegally tried to transform a restaurant into "a place for conducting prayers" without [legal]...
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, February 21, 2000
Next Thursday, Pope John Paul II, the Pope of the Vatican will be arriving to Egypt. Due to this occasion, we have asked what are the Catholic problems and concerns that await the great Pope of Rome? What do they want him to do in the coming period? The answer came to confirm the fact that what...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
Pope Shenouda will not attend the Mass that Pope John Paul II will pray in the covered hall. The reason is that the rituals of the Mass are different between the Catholic and the Orthodox rites. It is expected that Pope Shenouda will send a representative to the Mass.
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
This article gives some of the historical background to the disagreement between the churches covering the Council of Chalcedon, and then the Council of Ephesus in 428 AD when the Patriarch of Constantinople stated that Mary was not holy and that she was only the mother of Jesus, not more...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
The question that Copts are asking now is whether the meeting of Pope John Paul II with Pope Shenouda will end or at least quicken the ending of the conflict between the Orthodox and the Catholic Churches. The disagreement goes back to more than 1500 years ago. It centers on a main issue, which is...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
Christians in Egypt constitute more than twenty-seven denominations. The Coptic Orthodox is the majority denomination, followed by Coptic Catholics and then Evangelicals who have several denominations. There is just a difference in belief between these denominations, it is not a conflict or a...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 1, 1999
Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of the Episcopal British Church stressed his belief in the importance of building the strongest possible relations between the Islamic and the Christian leaders.
Date of source: Friday, November 26, 1999
George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, announced that there is nothing that proves that Christians in Egypt are persecuted.