Date of source: Thursday, August 6, 1998
Lawyer Fatma Lasheen files a law suit asking to be appointed as judge. If she wins, the door will be open for women for the first time to sit on the bench.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 4, 1998
A controversy over the release of movies and video films dramatizing events in the lives of Christian saints.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 28, 1998
A suspected extremist killed three nuns in Hodeidah, Yemen.
Date of source: Thursday, July 23, 1998
Sheik Tantawi received this week a message from Pope John Paul II on the importance of stepping up cooperation among Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Thursday, July 23, 1998
The official web site of the Gama’a Islamiya is www.morabiton.org.
Date of source: Thursday, July 23, 1998
The Muslim Brotherhood faces internal dissent.
Date of source: Thursday, July 23, 1998
Islamic Sharia has nothing against women nominating themselves for public office and voting said the Grand Mufti Nasser Farid Wassel.
Date of source: Saturday, July 11, 1998
Cromwell praised the executive director of the International Coptic Federation, based in Washington, for his lobby work for the proposed Freedom of Religious Persecution Act in the US.
Date of source: Saturday, July 11, 1998
On June 25 the Azhar welcomed a decision to shut down "SuraLikeit" on America on Line (AOL). On June 28, an American atheist group slammed the decision by AOL to close down the ant-Qur’an site.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 8, 1998
A Coptic civilization museum was recently opened in Germany.