Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 29, 2012
Rāmī Lakah, for his part, stressed that there are 13 Coptic Members of Parliament , expressing his optimism for a consensus
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 24, 2012
Rāmī Lakah, leader of Hizb Misrinā, or "Our Egypt Party" and appointed to the Shūrá Council, said that the three Christian churches, Orthodox Catholic and Evangelical, agreed to submit one memo to be discussed on December 26.
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 15, 2012
The presidential body has promised the three major Egyptian churches to appoint eight members of the Shūrá Council, four members to represent Orthodox, two for the Evangelical Church, and two for the Catholic Church. Within the frame launched by President Mursī for “national dialogue”, Vice...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 11, 2012
The three main Christian denominations in Egypt stressed that they did not call Copts to boycott the constitutional referendum. They argued that Copts may choose what they want whether to boycott or participate in the yes-or-no referendum. ['Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, December 11, p. 10] Read...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 10, 2012
Al-Misrīyūn reports, that Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II had contacted Dr. Muhammad al-Barād’ī, head of al-Dustūr Party, and Hamdīn Sabbāhī, former Egyptian presidential candidate, in order to “coordinate the stance of the Church with that of the opposition” after the dialogue meeting that...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 9, 2011
A total of 70 Copts nationwide have decided to run in the forthcoming presidential elections, a figure almost the same as those who used to run in elections during the past 30 years.
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 22, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) inaugurated the new building of the MB party "Freedom and Justice" on May 21, 2011, in al-Muqattam.
Each of both potential presidential candidate 'Amr Mūsá and Hamdīn Sabāhī, as well as 'Abd al-'Azīz Hijāzī, Rif'at al-Sa'īd, Sāmih 'Āshūr, Mahfūz 'Azām, Ambassador Rifā'...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 26, 2011
Rāmī Lakah, one of the leaders of al-Wafd party, met with Dr. Muhammad Badī’, Muslim Brotherhood’s Murshid [Guide], asking him to clarify the position of the MB in many cases which increase Coptic fears concerning paying Jizyah and the second article of the constitution.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 13, 2010
'Alā' 'Arībī promotes the idea that Pope Shenouda and Copts problems are not with muslims but with the regime.
'Arībī wonders whether Pope Shenouda will support oppositions and will contribute to find a parliament and a national government that aims citizen's interests.
He also praises the Pope...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 6, 2010
The Copts of Shubra and Rūd al-Faraj, two Cairo neighborhoods with a good deal of Copts, went home straight after church last Sunday instead of heading to the polls to vote in the parliamentary elections, as told by their priests.
Security officials at the Muhammad Farīd School in Shubrā did not...