Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 1, 2014
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 16, 2014
Rev. Rif’at Fikrī, head of the Media Council of the Coptic Evangelical Church has mourned the victims of the terrorist attack that took place yesterday (March 15th) in Musturud, Cairo.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 9, 2012 to الأحد, آذار (مارس) 11, 2018
Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah, the chairman of the Coptic Orthodox Church Holy Synod’s Information Committee, said the country is already groaning, rejecting calls to start civil disobedience in protest at the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)’s continuation in power.
“We have to work...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 25, 2017
Pastor Rifʿat Fikrī, President of the Media Committee of the Egyptian Council of Churches, stated that the Egyptian church returned the code of personal status for Copts to Counselor Majdī al-ʿAjātī, Minister of Legal Affairs and Parliament, to discuss and amend it.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2012
The Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo approved by majority during its annual meeting on Friday (January 20) on the ordaining of women as priests for the first time in the history of all Christian denomination in Egypt.
Pastor Rif'at Fikrī, Chairman of the ETSC's information committee, said...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 25, 2013
The Coptic Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical Churches will meet with the Ministry of Justice (Author's note: the newspaper did not name the person they are meeting) on May 12, 2013, to discuss a civil marriage proposal to include a new chapter suited to Christian needs (Sarah Hāmid, al-Misrīyūn,...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 26, 2013
Egyptian media are full of reports on the work of the current Constituent Assembly. On November 22, Arab-West Report met with Rev. Dr. Safwāt al-Bayādī, President of the Protestant Churches in Egypt and member of the Constituent Assembly. Arab-West Report had previously attended a conference of...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 2, 2012
The Coptic Evangelical Church’s Synod appealed to President Muḥammad Mursī to freeze his constitutional declaration and call for a national dialogue that would bring together all segments of the society to reach accordance over critical issues. [Ḥusnī Mīlād, al-Akhbār, Dec. 2, p. 9] Read text in...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 4, 2012
In an attempt to cool down an explosive situation in Beni Suef, a prosecutor in the Upper Egyptian governorate ordered Nabīl Nādī Rizq, 9, and Mīnā Nādī Faraj, 10, be placed in a reformatory for causing sectarian troubles after they urinated on a copy of the Qur’ān. [Mustafá ‘Arafah, Rose al-Yūsuf...
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This book was first published in 2012 by CIDT in Arabic. It was later translated into English, expanded with texts of Nushin Atmaca and Patricia Prentice and edited by Cornelis Hulsman with help of Jenna Ferrecchia and Douglas May.