Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 2012
Albair Sābir ‘Ayyād, a 27-year-old Christian young man who is under investigative custody on charges he disdained religions, dismissed the accusations and said what he spoke about on his social media networking websites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages already exist in comparative theology and...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 31, 2012
Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd newspaper published a cartoon deriding the Muslim Brotherhood’s domination over state positions. It showed three Christian clergymen telling a child, supposedly the one to take the alter lot to name of one three finalists as pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church on Sunday (November...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 31, 2012
Sunday (November 4) will mark the altar lot that would name a new pope to succeed Pope Shenouda III, who passed away on March 17, 2012, among three candidates – Bishop Raphael, Bishop Tawdrus and Archpriest Raphael Ava Mina.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2012
Public Coptic figures agreed that acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius has successfully run the transitional period that has been tough for the church. [
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2012
The ceremony to elect three out of five candidates in the papal elections was carried by the Egyptian TV and radio thanks to support from the church and the voting committee.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2012
Hudá Mikhail ‘Abd al-Malik, a former director general from Cairo, praised women’s representation in the committee overseeing the papal elections.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2012
Bishop Antonius of Ireland and Scotland said all expatriate Copts are keen on attending the great day of elections that some of them had private flight reservations, adding all Copts would cooperate with the new patriarch for the good of the church. [
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2012
Bishop Bula, the official spokesman for the papal elections committee, said children wishing to participate in a competition to choose one of them who will take the altar lot, a process that will end in naming the new pope who will sit on the Saint Mark chair.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2012
The election of the 118th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church took place on Monday (October 29) in a democratic atmosphere as three out of five candidates will be qualified to the alter lot scheduled for Sunday (November 4) to choose a successor of Pope Shenouda III, who passed away in March 2012.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 29, 2012
The Salafī Front, in a statement on Sunday (October 28), refused to send a Coptic girl, who disappeared since late last month and has reportedly converted to Islam and married a Muslim young man, back to her family in Mersa Matrouh. [Mustafá Rahūmah, Sa’īd Hijāzī and Muhammad Bakhāt, al-Watan, Oct...