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Bishop Bula, the official spokesman for the papal elections committee, said there is no judicial supervision over the elections scheduled for Monday (October 29), adding the committee will choose six aides from the 2412 voters to help oversee the voting process.
The presidency declined to confirm President Muhammad Mursī’s attendance of the ceremony to enthrone Bishop Tawadrus II as the 118th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese, scheduled for Sunday (November 18) at the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah.
A delegation of Shubrā al-Khaymah priests met with Public Prosecutor ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd on Wednesday (November 7) to ask for the protection of a plot of land owned by the Kai Mina and Abi Sayfayn Church in the area of Mintāī, accusing a group of Salafists of “occupying the land and turning it...
Bishop Bula of Tantā, the official spokesman for the papal elections committee, said no candidate has been disqualified so far, adding the committee has already met the 10 monks to get to know about their ideas and opinions.
Pope Tawardros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark said he would open a new chapter of relations with everyone, adding his heart is open for all Egyptians – Muslims and Copts. 
A source in the church’s papal elections committee said Bishop Tawdrus of al-Beheira and Archbishop Rufail Afamina, a monk in the Mar Mina Monastery, were the first two candidates in the final list for the papal patriarchal elections.
Representatives of 40 movements and parties and a number of Maspero youths’ families on Sunday (October 7) threatened to “internationalize” the issue of the Maspero protesters killing before the International Criminal Court (ICC) to sue Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, the former Chairman of...
Armored security patrols are in place to secure all of the troubled Egyptian city of Rafah, said a military source, adding news reports about a shooting attack on a Copt’s house on Saturday (October 6) were bare of truth. 
Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah also argued the announced figures.  
The Committee for the Coptic Orthodox Papal Nomination is due to meet on the September 4 to start receiving appeals to the Patriarchal candidates. After receiving all appeals, the committee will create a shortlist of between five and seven candidates based on order of preference, taking all appeals...

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