Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 19, 2013
Bishop Rafael stated that the refusal of some Coptic streams of Bishop Bola’s appointment in the Constituent Assembly is not well examined. He also stated that the Church does not deal with the Copts as sheep. He added that the wave of atheism that has spread among the Egyptian youth after the...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 18, 2013
Security forces in Gharbiah have successfully caught two assailants accused of killing two young men in the village of Mahalah Ziyād of Samanūd Center and hanging their corpses in the bus station.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 17, 2013
Security forces in al-Minya successfully rescued a Coptic doctor who was kidnapped by a criminal gang. General Usāmah Mitwallī, the head of al-Minya security department, received a notification that unknown assailants had kidnapped Mājid William Iskandar, who works as a doctor.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 16, 2013
The Coptic Church celebrated ‘Īd al-Adhá with the Muslims. This took various forms and confirmed the wish of the Church to share in the Muslims’ joy. It also reaffirmed the strength of national unity. Bishop Bola, the representative of the Church in the Constituent Assembly, together with a number...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 10, 2013
On the second anniversary of the Maspero incident, a number of political parties raising the slogan, “No safe exit for the SCAF,” have preferred to transform the anniversary this year into a celebration. Shihāb Wagih, the media spokesperson of the Free Egyptians’ Party stated that the party has...
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2013
Pope Tawadros has left to Rome, Italy to take part in a peace conference called for by Pope Francis. The conference, entitled, “The Courage to Hope Religions and Cultures in Dialogue” is organized by the Community of Sant 'Egidio (Majdī Fikrī, al-Dustūr, Sept. 30, p. 4). This article has no link...
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 29, 2013
Bishop Bola, the representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the Constituent Assembly, stated that he did not submit a proposal to amend Article 3 from “Christians and Jews” to “non-Muslims”. He stated that he was surprised to find a stream of opinions in the assembly requesting to amend the...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 28, 2013
The representatives of Al-Azhar in the Constituent Assembly have supported banning religious-based parties. Muhammad Shahāt al-Gindī, the representative of the Azhar in the assembly, stated that such parties have been detrimental to Islam’s image recently, as they have abused it to get political...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 27, 2013
Coptic activists requested Dr. Biblāwī’s interim government to hold an extraordinary meeting to approve a budget to renovate the churches that have been destroyed in the aftermath of the dispersion of the Nahdah and Rāb’ah sit ins. The activists stated that the Muslim Brotherhood is responsible for...
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 26, 2013
Muhammad Salamāwī, the spokesman of the Constituent Committee, stated that the Rights and Liberties Subcommittee has amended a number of articles, which will be then sent to the Formulation Committee then the General Committee to be approved. He stated that Article 54 pertaining to the political...