Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Security forces were able to contain a potentially violent sectarian crisis on Monday evening, February 25, 2013, in Shubrā al-Khaymah. A group of Salafīs who opposed the construction of a service building for the Abū Maqār Church surrounded the church and forced the workers to stop their labour....
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Security forces were able to contain a potentially violent sectarian crisis on Monday evening, February 25, 2013, in Shubrā al-Khaymah. A group of Salafīs who opposed the construction of a service building for the Abū Maqār Church surrounded the church and forced the workers to stop their labour....
Date of source: Thursday, March 7, 2013
Pastor Ridā also said that 200 Christian families from the Evangelical Church in Alexandria migrated from Egypt since 1995 (Rānīyā Nabīl, al-Sabāh, Mar. 7, p. 4). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Friday, February 22, 2013
John Tal’at, the coordinator for Early Warning for Sectarianism, has called for the closure of channels inciting sectarian crises, and warned of the necessity of laws criminalizing the contempt of religion as a real deterrent against inciting sectarian schisms.
Najīb Jabrā’īl, head of the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 10, 2013
Human rights and Coptic activists condemned a ruling issued by Cairo Criminal Court, sentencing Michael ‘Adil and Michael ‘As’ad to three years in prison for stealing and possession of firearms belonging to the Armed Forces. The background to this sentence is the attack on peaceful protestors...
Date of source: Thursday, February 7, 2013
A source close to Coptic Orthodox Bishop Mūsá of Youth confirmed that he had turned down the post of official spokesman for the Coptic Church. The source indicated that Pope Tawadros had asked Bishop Mūsá to take on responsibility for media relations as he is one of the most diplomatic Bishops;...
Date of source: Thursday, January 31, 2013
On Wednesday evening, January 30, 2013, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II held his first weekly sermon at Saint Mark Cathedral in al-'Abāssīyah. Pope Tawadros will hold his weekly sermon on the same day that the late Pope Shenouda III held his weekly sermons throughout his years as Pope. Different...
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2013
In his first visit to Upper Egypt, Pope Tawadros II will participate in the opening session on Coptic Heritage meeting that will take place in al-Muharraq Monastery in Asyut tomorrow Monday.
Church sources revealed that the Holy Synod will study a proposal submitted by Bishop Bisantī of the...
Date of source: Monday, January 28, 2013
The three major Coptic Churches of Egypt vehemently condemned declarations that attempt to drag the Churches into the new phenomenon of violence that emerged in Egypt lately and of allegedly providing and enhancing the Black Bloc “militias”-so the accusations-, describing such declarations as “...
Date of source: Monday, January 28, 2013
The three major Coptic Churches of Egypt vehemently condemned declarations that attempt to drag the Churches into the new phenomenon of violence that emerged in Egypt lately and of allegedly providing and enhancing the Black Bloc “militias”-so the accusations-, describing such declarations as “...