Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 25, 2013
‘Ayād related the story of his disappearance, he said that he was participating in Friday’s protests to denounce the “brotherhoodization” of the country. When the protest turned physical, a person attacked him and took him to Bilāl Mosque in al-Muqattam where he was tortured and beaten in the...
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 22, 2013
A conference titled, “The Egyptian Identity Between the Nation and the Sacred,” has been organized and will be held on Saturday Mar. 23. Attending the conference are representatives of the Azhar, the three Churches of Egypt (the Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical) and a number of leaders of the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 20, 2013
Ramsīs al-Najjār, Coptic Orthodox Church’s Legal Consultant, said that al-Milī (Lay) Council of the church will issue a new Personal Status regulations to resolve divorce issues. Meanwhile, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II is heading a conference about personal status at Bishop Bishoy Monastery (...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 19, 2013
A number of Egyptian Copts returning from Libya after being detained for alleged Christian proselytizing, have requested pressing charges against the Libyan government and demanded compensation for the physical and moral insults to their religion while detained in Libyan prison. Lūqā Yūnān, 27,...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 11, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II installed four general bishops and ordained seven new Archbishops on new dioceses. He announced that the Church will celebrate the first Anniversary commemorating the death of late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III on Friday, March 15, 2013. The celebration will...
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 8, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II congratulated the Coptic Orthodox Ethiopian Church for choosing the new patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Abune Mathias.
Regardless of Pope Tawadros’ negligence to the crisis of Sirisnā Church in al-Faiyum Governorate, Saint Mark Cathedral...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 4, 2013
The security agency in Sharm al-Sheikh has found the girl that caused numerous attacks on the St. George Church in Kom Ombo in Aswan Governorate. In response, the Archpriest, Abānūb Wahīd Rā’ī, exclaimed how everyone can now see that the Church did not play any role in the abduction of this woman....
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 4, 2013
Bishop Pachomius of al-Beheira and the five Western cities said to al-Sabāh that the Church is closely following the case of detained Copts in Libya, accused of proselytizing. Many officials and the Egyptian Embassy in Libya are trying to release a number of detainees and prove the invalidity of...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 12, 2013
Copts were angered by statements of al-Shaykh Abū Islām, owner of al-Ummah Satellite Channel, against Christianity. Copts considered his statements offensive to the Christ and Virgin Mary, demanding the Public Prosecutor to arrest him.
Najīb Jubrā’īl, Coptic lawyer and head of the Egyptian Union of...
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 10, 2013
Pope Tawadros blessed the launch of al-Hurīyah al-Qibtīyah (“Coptic Freedom”), a new Coptic, ecclesiastical channel, and the first of its kind during his time as Pope. It is part of the global TBN network of channels, a Christian network available in most languages. Dīnā ‘Abd al-Karīm held an...