Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2012
Coptic movements and figures slammed a so-called fatwá by Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, the deputy chairman of the Salafī Da’wah (Call) Movement, rendering as harām (religiously forbidden in Islam) any taxi drivers getting priests to their churches and said “this is worse than driving some people to pubs”....
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 2012
Coptic associations called for the state’s intervention to prevent the church from civil legislation for Christians, have it confined to the religious aspects and that the government should enact civil laws on personal status for Copts away from any interference by the church.
The conference held...
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 4, 2012
“The Dutch journalist attacked late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III when he said that the pope deepened Christians’ feelings of persecution by exaggerating on estimations regarding the Coptic population,” said Bishop Bīshūy, who runs in the papal election to sit on the Saint Mark chair.
The...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 15, 2012
The number of monks applied for the position rose to seven after Monks Bīshūy and Archpriest Maximus presented their papers and recommendations to the candidacy committee. [Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, May 15, p. 4] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 15, 2012
The number of monks applied for the position rose to seven after Monks Bīshūy and Archpriest Maximus presented their papers and recommendations to the candidacy committee. [Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, May 15, p. 4] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 15, 2012
The number of monks applied for the position rose to seven after Monks Bīshūy and Archpriest Maximus presented their papers and recommendations to the candidacy committee. [Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, May 15, p. 4] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 15, 2012
Acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius refused canceling any of the 2008 amendments introduced by late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III on the rules of divorce and marriage, which confined to divorce only to reasons of adultery and conversion to other faiths. [Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, May 15, p. 3] ...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 9, 2013
The Pope will have intensified security during his visit to Switzerland out of fear that the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood may attack him. This was stated by Bishop Jeremiah through a tweet (Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, Dec. 9, p. 2). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 7, 2013
Amid an ongoing situation of political ambiguity in Egypt al-Watan interviewed Coptic Orthodox Bishop Mūsá of Youth. He was nominated to be the Coptic Orthodox Pope 118, succeeding the deceased Pope Shenouda III, but his loyalty and love to the Church and Egyptian Christians made him reject the...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 7, 2013
Amid an ongoing situation of political ambiguity in Egypt al-Watan interviewed Coptic Orthodox Bishop Mūsá of Youth. He was nominated to be the Coptic Orthodox Pope 118, succeeding the deceased Pope Shenouda III, but his loyalty and love to the Church and Egyptian Christians made him reject the...