We have spoken in
the preceding issue about love and its
importance. We mentioned that:
* Love is included in every commandment: "Let
all that you do be done with love.' (1 Cor 16:
14)
* Love is the object of the commandment: "Now
the purpose of the commandment is love.' (1 Tim
1:5)
* Love is greater than any commandment as the
Lord said in (Mt 22: 36-40), and as St. Paul the
Apostle says, "And now abide faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest of these is love.'
(1 Cor 13:13) It is not only greater than
ordinary faith but even than the faith that
could remove mountains (1 Cor 13:2).
* Love is the commandment on which all the Law
and the Prophets hang (Mt 22:40).
* Love is better than all gifts and miracles, as
the apostle after listing all the gifts said,
"Yet I show you a more excellent way...' i.e.,
love (1 Cor 12:31).
Many will say to the Lord on the Last Day:
"Lord, have we not...
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30 November 2008 Updated
every Sunday
Mumbai terror rage ends
after 60 hours, 195 dead
The Egyptian
Gazette
MUMBAI, India A 60-hour terror rampage
across India's financial capital ended
yesterday when commandos killed the last
three gunmen holed up in a luxury hotel
engulfed in flames. At least 195 people
died. After the final siege ended, adoring
crowds surrounded six buses near the hotel
carrying weary, unshaven commandos, shaking
their hands and giving them flowers. The
commandos, dressed in black fatigues, said
they had been ordered not to talk about the
operation, but said they had not slept since
the ordeal began. One sat sipping a bottle
of water and holding a pink rose. "What
happened is disgusting," said Suresh Thakkar,
59, who reopened his clothing store behind
the hotel yesterday for the first time since
the attacks. "It will be harder to recover,
but we will recover. Bombay people have a
lot of spirit and courage....
Families of Egyptians jailed in Saudi Arabia
press for their release
The Egyptian Gazette
Relatives of two Egyptian doctors and an
engineer, who were sentenced to jailing and
flogging in Saudi Arabia, delivered a note to
Egypt's Foreign Ministry yesterday, calling for
coordinating efforts with Saudi authorities in
order to release them, Mohamed Ismail reports.
"Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit is already making
high-level contacts to secure the release of the
two doctors and the engineer," Mohamed Abdul
Quddos, head of the Egyptian Press Syndicate's
Freedoms Committee, said after handing the
note.Abdel Quddos, who accompanied the relatives
to the Foreign Ministry, expected a solution to
the crisis soon.Last month, a Saudi court
sentenced Egyptian doctors Raouf el-Arabi and
Shawki Abd Rabou to 15 years in prison and 1,500
lashes each for causing the wife of a Saudi
prince to get...
Article
of
the
Day
Indian 9/11
The Egyptian Gazette
No-one in his right senses would justify the
unspeakable atrocity, perpetrated in India's
financial capital Mumbai. Scores of innocent
people were slain and injured in terror
attacks, which must be condemned in the
strongest possible terms. The assaults,
claimed by a hitherto-unknown Muslim group
and blamed on al-Qaeda, must serve as a
reminder to the world that terrorism remains
one of the top threats to its existence. At
the same time, the world should be on its
guard against falling a victim to
stereotyping. Amidst the gory and
destructive scene of the Mumbai attacks,
fingers were pointed at the Muslims that
they are the culprits. The hasty
finger-pointing revives in one's mind the
hysterical accusations leveled at the
Muslims in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror
attacks in the US. In the years that
followed the assaults in New York and
Washington, the whole Muslims were
dehumanised as followers of a faith
preaching violence. These unfair
accusations, which fueled hate crimes and
racial profiling against the Muslims...
Selected Articles
Fifty years of Watani
By: Youssef Sidhom, WATANI International
During its Jubilee year Watani has navigated
its 50-year-old archive to offer its readers
material recalling landmark events and
issues the newspaper covered throughout the
years. Stories on economics, politics,
social affairs, sports, arts, as well as the
main causes that Watani defended were
reprinted. Issues of Copts, women and
freedoms used to top Watani's agenda for
decades, until the cause of the day,
citizenship rights, took the lead. The tour
in Watani's archive illustrated how...
Selected
Articles
Equality in education
The Egyptian Gazette
CITING the need for creating universities to
enable its graduates to meet the actual
needs of the labour mar-ket, the Upper House
of the Parliament has recently approved, in
principle, a draft law for the creation of
some non-profitable universities. Such
universities would be supervised by the
Government. There would be some fees to
ensure good educational serv-ice to the
students.Could this courageous step be the
magical wand for solving the dilemma...
By
Magdy Malak
An illusional reform
We have travelled a
long way on the road of political and
socio-economic reform but must still introduce a
further package of serious reforms to complete
the modernisation of our legislative and
constitutional structure," Mubarak said. so
according to what Mr. Mubarak said we will
travel all of our life in making reform and this
reform will not have any effect on the people's
lives till they die to be sure that is...
