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Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2000
The
news about the miraculous apparition of the Holy Virgin Mary over
the Church of Saint Mark in the southern province of Assiut
unleashed controversy about the credibility of
such a spiritual phenomena. While many people confirmed that they had seen
her, some media reports have
shown...
Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2000
Akhbar al-Youm, received an angry comment from
father Morcos Aziz regarding its article
of last week [see RNSAW week 36, art.10] in which Amal Othman
strongly criticized him. al-Arabi urged rapid intervention to
prevent the collapse of an important
monument. al-Qahira weekly published a...
Date of source:
The church of Saint Marcos
in the southern
province of Assiut witnessed a new apparition of the Virgin Mary. Thousands of people saw her surrounded by
white pigeons and flashing lights in a miraculous spectacle, which lasted 6 hours on one occasion. The
priest’s council of
the church in Assiut...
Date of source:
A short article, which appeared in a foreign publication, regarding the Muslim Brotherhood’s backing of a Coptic candidate [for the next parliamentary elections], raised much speculation, especially when the Coptic candidate, a lawyer, revealed that he had not been told the whole story.
Date of source:
Last Thursday, 10th of August,
the jailed professor of sociology and head of the Ibn Khaldoun center, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, was released on
bail of 10,000 L.E
(2,857 US dollars) following a decision made by the general attorney of the state
security department, Hisham Saraya.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 8, 2000
Dr. Saʿd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm opened fire against the Egyptian government, state security department, and some Egyptian young people a few hours before he was accused officially of espionage for the sake of foreign entities. "I was a victim of youth deceiving me" Ibrāhīm said.
Date of source:
The frozen Labour party challenged the administrative procedures used to freeze it and
presented a list of 19 candidates for the next parliamentary elections, while a group of law activists
called for the
resumption of the party’s activities.
2. Labour party’s crisis takes
on new dimensions after the court’s invalidation of
the ban decision.
Date of source:
The current crisis of the
frozen opposition party, al-Amal (Labour), entered a new stage after
the revocation, by the administrative
supreme court, of the ban imposed by the parliamentary committee of parties. There is a
high expectation of
a revival of the same party.
Date of source:
After the
resumption of the
provisional jail of four employees of the Center, and the eventual renewal of the imprisonment period of
it’s director, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who faces the charges of falsification of electoral documents in order
to get economic
benefits, the repercussions of the...
Date of source:
The
consultative council (Shūrá) in
the Egyptian parliament decided, on July 24, to freeze the Islamic opposition Labour Party.
It filed an
urgent case before the Administrative Supreme Court to dissolve the Labour Party, and to see whether the criminal
charges, reported against 55 of the...
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