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 Bishop Bula of Tantā, the spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church and a member of the nominations committee for the papal elections, said the committee is still working in Wādī al-Natrūn, adding the announcement of the seven names that will vie over the chair of Saint Mark is not expected this...
The Vatican, during a weekly sermon by Pope Benedict XVI of the Roman Catholic Church, in which he used Arabic for the first time in a bid to have larger communication with Christians and Muslims in the Middle East, expressed concerns about the emigration of the region’s Christians for their own...
Several Christians in Syria voiced insistence on staying on their own soil despite all the sanguinary incidents in the violence-struck country for 19 months now but also said they have concerns about their fate once the Islamists made it to power.
Also, Mahmūd al-Sharīf, Chairman of the Syndicate of al-Ashrāf (Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad), and Rev. Dr. Andrea Zakī, Director of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS), sent a congratulatory cable to Pope Tawadros II.
Meanwhile, Pope Benedict XVI of the Roman Catholic Church sent a congratulatory cable to Pope Tawadros II over his new spiritual post as Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of Saint Mark and wished peace in Egypt and the Middle East region.
The trial of a Salafī preacher and others on charges of disdaining Christianity started on Sunday (September 30) as the environs of the court saw clashes between Islamists supporting the defendants and Copts before the session was adjourned to October 14.
The Holy Synod is discussing on Thursday (November 8) preparations for the enthronement of Pope Tawadros II as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church as Bishop Bula of Tantā said that a meeting to be followed by a press conference will be held to expound on the investiture process.
Bishop Quzmān said the reports published about the displacement of Coptic families were “inaccurate,” adding the local residents of Sinai, including chieftains and clerics helped Christians in the governorate.
The Nasr City Court of Misdemeanor stopped the course of the trial of Salafī preacher Ahmad ‘Abd Allāh, alias Abū Islām, his son Islām and journalist Hānī Yāsīn pending a decision into a lawsuit filed by Abū Islām’s lawyer requesting change of the judges panel.
U.S. ambassador in Cairo Anne Patterson termed as “nonsense” statements by former Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Fayzāh Abū al-Najā who accused NGOs of working within a scheme to divide Egypt, adding it is the same “nonsense” that the United States backed the victory of...

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