Date of source: الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 5, 2006
Last March the administrative court issued a ruling which aroused huge controversy when it decreed that the pope of the Coptic Church could issue remarriage permits to Coptic couples who had obtained divorce rulings from civil courts, but not marriage annulments from the church. The ruling was...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 5, 2006
Father Nasīf writes in response to Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, the former muftī of Egypt, who accused Christianity of being a religion that calls for violence and where reason is absent.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 2006
The author
writes about honoring Father Mattá al-Maskīn and records his achievements. He sees him as a prominent
Egyptian, worth being recognized as an example for generations to come.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 1, 2006
A number of Coptic intellectuals have organized a conference entitled: Laymen’s vision of the Problems of the Church. They discussed several problems of the Church, including the regulations of election the patriarch and trials of priests.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 5, 2006
The court session of the lawsuit initiated by Shaykh Yūsuf al-Badrī was postponed until 16 of January, 2007. On the same date, a session will be held to discuss a lawsuit promoting a new Christian denomination.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 2006
Coptic Orthodox Church member and businessman Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá speaks out about internal problems in the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2006
This article sheds light on one of the most important manuscripts that covers the
history of Egypt from the first century AD until the modern era. The manuscript was recently reviewed and published
after important annexes and references were added.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 29, 2006
Dispute over two qirats of land in the Upper Egyptian village of Dayr al-
Barshā, Minia governorate, ended up with six people killed and 12 others wounded.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2006
The selection for pope number 118 of the Egyptian Orthodox church has been narrowed down to three
top personalities: Bishop Bīshūy, Bishop Mūsá and Bishop Yu’annis.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2006
Father Marqus, the secretary of Pope Shenouda and the spokesman of the Coptic Orthodox Church, comments on Pope Shenouda’s statements about the severity of church trials. He also defends Pope Shenouda in relations to discussions about his successor.