Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
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The full text of the Fact Sheet as downloaded off the internet.
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 1999 to Friday, September 3, 1999
Pope Shenouda says some Copts might go to Israel to celebrate the year 2000 but he doesn’t want normalization with Israel until they give up the land they usurped.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 1999
The establishment of the Canadian Islamic Congress was a great achievement. This Congress has been based on four principles. It aims at protecting the rights of the Muslims and increasing the size of the Muslim community.
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Mahmoud Sayed Gaballah, an Egyptian militant Islamist suspect confined in a
Toronto prison, spurned a Canadian court offer, made last Thursday, to be handed
over to a third country, fearing this could lead to his extradition to Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 1999 to Friday, June 18, 1999
The devil of the sectarian strife is Maurice Sadek. Sadek in turn accuses the Coptic Orthodox Church to behind the stories about young Coptic girls by mentioning Dr. Nabila Mikhael, a member of the Maglis el-Milli(the General Church Council), who is also working at the secretariat of H.H. Pope...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 1999 to Wednesday, June 9, 1999
Despite parliament’s approval, many NGOs believe that this is no reason to stop the campaign against a law which, they argue, infringes upon their autonomy. The law, many NGOs assert, gives the government extensive control over the establishment and liquidation of organizations, and widens the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 5, 1999 to Friday, June 11, 1999
Rose el-Yousef published the text of an advertisement in the Washington Times of May 25 claiming Christian girls in Egypt are kidnapped, raped and forced to convert to Islam. They conclude the translation with one paragraph saying the claims are not true.
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Canadian police have confirmed that an Egyptian man with suspected ties to violent Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East has been detained as a security risk. His insistence that he was a "devout Muslim" persecuted by the Egyptian government was also found to lack credibility.
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 1999 to Wednesday, May 19, 1999
Canadian authorities recently arrested an Egyptian Islamist accused of involvement in the 1981 assassination of President Anwar El-Sadat and confined him in a prison near Toronto airport. Islamist sources identified the militant as Mahmoud Sayyed Gaballah, who left Egypt in 1991.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 17, 1999
An overview of the position of Copts in Egypt.