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...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius sent a legal memorandum to the Administrative Court exhorting it to turn down all lawsuits against his appointment and cancellation of the papal elections. [Author Not Mentioned, Rose al-Yūsuf newspaper, Oct. 28, p. 3] Read text in...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 27, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb expressed support the top post in the Sunni establishment to be through elections from among the senior scholars board, adding he has been one of the earlier figures who called for brining the grand shaykh through elections.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 10, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī performed the Friday prayers at al-Fārūq Mosque in Choueifat region, 5th District, New Cairo, close to his home. He called political movements to cooperate and to consider public interests to their own.