Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 5, 2012
A group of Coptic activists severely criticized the participation of Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah and Dr. Safwat al-Bayyādī of the Coptic Evangelical Church in the Egyptian delegation traveling to Saudi Arabia to meet Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King ‘Abd Allāh bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz.
The...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 5, 2012
The Coptic Catholic Church expressed rejection against the spilling of Egyptian blood by Egyptian hands and all acts of violence by any side.
Bishop Kyrillos of the Coptic Catholic Church offered condolences over the victims of the ‘Abbāssīyah clashes and called for “calm and peaceful dialogue to...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 5, 2012
The coalition, in a statement circulated on Friday (May 4), warned that some parties are using these demonstrations and the security forces’ preoccupation with them in order to carry out “terrorist operations targeting churches and vital state institutions”.
“With grief and pain, we condemn the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 2, 2012
Meanwhile, the Abū Tisht prosecution in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minya ordered the investigative custody of Kamāl ‘Abd al-‘Azīm ‘Abd al-Jawwād for four days on charges of kidnapping 13-year-old Coptic student.
The kidnapper was arrested by Muslim locals in a village after they ambushed...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 2, 2012
Meanwhile, the Abū Tisht prosecution in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minya ordered the investigative custody of Kamāl ‘Abd al-‘Azīm ‘Abd al-Jawwād for four days on charges of kidnapping 13-year-old Coptic student.
The kidnapper was arrested by Muslim locals in a village after they ambushed...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 2, 2012
Meanwhile, the Abū Tisht prosecution in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minya ordered the investigative custody of Kamāl ‘Abd al-‘Azīm ‘Abd al-Jawwād for four days on charges of kidnapping 13-year-old Coptic student.
The kidnapper was arrested by Muslim locals in a village after they ambushed...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 2, 2012
Meanwhile, the Abū Tisht prosecution in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minya ordered the investigative custody of Kamāl ‘Abd al-‘Azīm ‘Abd al-Jawwād for four days on charges of kidnapping 13-year-old Coptic student.
The kidnapper was arrested by Muslim locals in a village after they ambushed...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 2, 2012
Church sources said 13 metropolitans and bishops and four monks obtained recommendations for running in the elections to choose a new patriarch of the papal chair in succession of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Jumhūrīyah, May 3, p. 3] Read text in Arabic
[Reviewer’s...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 2, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius said the church adopts a solid position about keeping Article 2 of the 1971 Constitution in the way it is drafted but a new paragraph spelling out the rights of non-Muslims to have as the main source their religious laws regulating...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 2, 2012
Meanwhile, political activist George Ishaq on Tuesday (May 1) visited the al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī Call) headquarters and met with its vice-president Dr. Yāsir al-Burhāmī.
Burhāmī said the meeting was positive as it tackled coexistence between Muslims and Christians for 14 centuries and that...