Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 9, 2013
Coptic movements have announced mass participation in the demonstrations on June 30 in support of Coptic rights. As well as calling for the withdrawal of confidence of President Muhammad Mursi (Mursī), and the bringing forward of presidential elections (Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, Jun. 9, p. 4). ...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 30, 2013
President Muhammad Mursi (Mursī) had asked Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II for the Church to meet with the Ethiopian Patriarch, in order to find a solution to the Nile river crisis. However, the Pope assigned this task to Bishop Biemen of Naqādah and Qūs (Qena governorate), due to his traveling...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2013
Today, Apr. 16, Pope Tawadros held a solace for the victims of the violence at al-Khusūs and Saint Mark's Cathedral. Present were public officials, foreign diplomats and ambassadors and delegations of other churches.
The Pope suddenly returned the evening before from his retreat at Saint Bishoy...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2013
On Monday, Apr. 16, Pope Tawadros met the families of seven victims of the incidents at al-Khusūs and Saint Mark's Cathedral. This meeting came after the Pope ended his seclusion (retreat from public life) at Saint Bishoy (Bīshūy) Monastery in Wādī al-Natrūn. The Church did not allow any media to...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 17, 2013
Azhar's Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb met a number of Coptic activists to discuss the current situation. Al-Tayyīb told the activists that Egypt is the target and that there are attempts to weaken the country. He also said the current situation is dangerous and that the instigators of the strife...
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 13, 2013
A number of Coptic activists, including Najīb Jubrā’īl, head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization, had submitted an official memo to Field Marshal ‘Abd al-Fattāh al-Sīsī, Minister of Defense, asking the Army to protect Copts, especially because of President Muhammad Morsi (Mursī) and...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 9, 2013
Further clashes near the Cathedral turned out to be less violent than what had happened outside the Cathedral two days before. Groups of thugs threw Molotov cocktails and stones at the Cathedral, after which a violent fight between the attackers and the Copts inside the cathedral broke out....
Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2013
Several Coptic movements and activists organize tomorrow (April 6) a silent protest in front of the Israeli Embassy against Israel's invitiation to Copts to migrate to Israel. Coptic activist, Wajīh Ya'qūb, coordinator of the protest, said that it is peaceful and will not disrupt traffic and that...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 2, 2013
The family of a boy who was kidnapped yesterday (Sunday, March 31) in front of Saint Paul Church in Um Bayūmī in Shubrā al-Khaymah has asked President Mursī and Prime Minister Hishām Qandīl to intervene in order to save the life of their son, Abānūb Ashraf. His kidnappers have asked for a ransom of...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 31, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II has announced his plans to form a council to facilitate divorce and remarriage by the end of April. The plan includes various procedures such as providing easy access to legal and social workers, clerical councils to help the families, the introduction of the...