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Hundreds of Copts are visiting Jerusalem during the Passion Week for the first time since the death of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III who prohibited pilgrimage to Jerusalem out of opposition to the Israeli occupation of the holy city, according to officials from the Egyptian carrier Air Sinai...
Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Khayrat al-Shātir said the implementation of the Islamic sharī’ah is his "lifetime project," adding there is no bargaining over it. [Muhammad Rādī, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 7] Read original text in Arabic
Reactions by parties, political powers and the civil society about the nomination of Engineer Khayrat al-Shātir for presidency are still shaking the country amidst fears the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) would dominate all key positions in Egypt. Al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah welcomed the decision, al-Nūr...
Coptic legislator Ihāb ‘Ādil Ramzī of al-Hurrīyah Party in al-Minya severely criticized the Muslim Brotherhood’s recent announcement to field Khayrat al-Shātir as its candidate for the forthcoming presidential election, adding the group is only bringing back to life the dissolved National...
The Millī (Community) Council is meeting Sunday evening to settle on the representatives of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt, days after controversy over their withdrawal. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, April 1, p. 4] Read original text...
Several scholars of the Azhar and its affiliate Islamic Research Academy welcomed the top Sunnī establishment’s decision to withdraw its only representative, former Muftī of the Republic Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, from the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt. [Ahmad ‘Uways, al-...
Several Coptic organizations and movements held a press conference to announce their refusal of the current constituent assembly drafting Egypt's post-revolution constitution, which Najīb Jubrā’īl, head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization, said marginalized all segments of the...
Presidential hopeful ‘Amr Mūsá said that corruption is the largest enemy facing the second republic, adding corruption must be uprooted and the rule of equality and law established. “The new republic should develop the cultural and educational process which will include all the society segments...
The Coptic Orthodox Church's Holy Synod formed an 18-member committee that will make a list of nominees for the patriarchic chair. Clergymen on the committee included Bishop Hīdrā of Aswan, Bishop Benjamin of Monufia, Bishop Būla of Tanta, Bishop Abrām of al-Fayoum, Bishop Serapion of Los Angeles...
Today, March 27, 2012, the Supreme State Security Prosecution will hear the statements of Dr. Najīb Jubrā’īl, Head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights, against Wajdī Ghunaym, who is facing charges of slandering Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III after his death in statements recorded in his...

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