Elizabeth Bryant
Elizabeth Bryant is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS FEATURE: Muslim Brotherhood Offers a Sister, and a New Image, to Egyptian Voters
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ALEXANDRIA, Egypt _ Megaphone to mouth, headscarf modestly in place, and the million-dollar smile of a political wannabe flashing, Jihan el-Halafawi is sending dirt-poor voters from this seaside city the message they want to hear. If she is elected to parliament, Halafawi announced one recent evening, she will fight for […]
NEWS FEATURE: Egypt’s diminishing Jewish Community Beleaguered From Within, Without
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ALEXANDRIA, Egypt _ The horse-drawn carriages rumbling past the Cecil Hotel are a throwback to more elegant times, when millionaire owner Albert Metzger counted Winston Churchill and novelist Lawrence Durrell among his guests. Today, the 72-year-old Cecil _ like this ancient Mediterranean city _ is a scruffy shadow of its […]
NEWS FEATURE: Virgin Mary and Other Miracles Attract Believers in Egypt
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO _ Three days a week, the hopeful pack a tiny courtyard in the Convent of St. George, tucked behind the dusty cobblestone streets of Cairo’s Coptic Christian quarter. The barren housewife, the man troubled by spirits, the depressed teen-ager _ all await Abuna Farag, a frail Coptic priest with […]
NEWS FEATURE: Coptic Christian Studies Gain Ground in Egypt
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO _ Twice a week, 23-year-old Simon Soliman takes a break from his studies and plays teacher to foreign tourists and fellow Egyptians who flock to Cairo’s elegant, fourth century Hanging Church. Picking his way between ancient relics and 1990s scaffolding, the Ain Shams University student offers visitors a slice […]
NEWS FEATURE: Egypt’s Coptic Church Seeing Surge in Monastic Vocations
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAIRO, Egypt _ Twelve-year-old Simon Nasef has already figured out his future career. He doesn’t want to be a firefighter. Or a policeman. Or a football player. He wants to be a monk. “I like it,” said the slight sixth-grader, who serves as an altar boy at his local Coptic […]
NEWS FEATURE: Muslim Brotherhood Offers a Sister, and a New Image, to Egyptian Voters
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ALEXANDRIA, Egypt _ Megaphone to mouth, headscarf modestly in place, and the million-dollar smile of a political wannabe flashing, Jihan el-Halafawi is sending dirt-poor voters from this seaside city the message they want to hear. If she is elected to parliament, Halafawi announced one recent evening, she will fight for […]
NEWS FEATURE: Egypt’s diminishing Jewish Community Beleaguered From Within, Without
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ALEXANDRIA, Egypt _ The horse-drawn carriages rumbling past the Cecil Hotel are a throwback to more elegant times, when millionaire owner Albert Metzger counted Winston Churchill and novelist Lawrence Durrell among his guests. Today, the 72-year-old Cecil _ like this ancient Mediterranean city _ is a scruffy shadow of its […]
NEWS FEATURE: Tunisia’s last Jews fight for survival
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service TUNIS, Tunisia _ It is a typical Friday evening at the elegant apartment of Michele Lycia and her husband. Half a dozen middle-aged Tunisians are gathered for dinner. They are old friends, these guests who dine on steaming bowls of couscous, clink glasses of scotch and greet each other with […]
NEWS FEATURE: Catholic Church becoming church for all in Algeria
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service ALGIERS, Algeria _ Their singing rolls across the empty pews of Notre Dame D’Afrique, mournful strains of West African spirituals weaving through European hymns. For an hour every Friday morning, the tiny congregation gathers with a missionary priest to forget their troubles and to find grace-the Christian evangelical house-worker stuck […]
NEWS FEATURE: Will antinuke activists dust off old campaign?
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Across the street from the White House, where the Clinton administration is keeping nervous watch on the nuclear muscle-flexing in South Asia, Concepcion Picciotto has spent more than 6,200 days campaigning to abolish nuclear weapons. Clad in jeans and checkered shirt, the diminutive Picciotto wages her 17-year, round-the-clock […]
NEWS FEATURE: Little change in the year after volunteer summit
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service PHILADELPHIA _ Welcome to north Philadelphia, Revolutionary War battleground-turned-urban heartache. On historic Germantown Avenue, amid graceful stone churches and abandoned houses, sits the Germantown Boy’s & Girl’s Club, its garden and freshly painted rooms still a testament to a spring day last year when 600 volunteers _ many in town […]
NEWS FEATURE: Relief groups beef up security to face riskier world
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Vietnam veteran Paul Giannone figured he left the front lines behind in 1975 when he took a job as an aid worker to heal the scars of poverty and war. That was before Somalia and Rwanda. Before Chechnya and Bosnia. Before Cambodia and Liberia, all places where aid […]
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