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On the occasion of the October War victory, Bishop Antonius Aziz, Bishop of Giza for Coptic Catholics and the representative of the Coptic Catholic church in the Constituent Assembly, sent a letter to interim president, Adlī Mansūr and General ‘Abdul Fattāh al-Sīsī, Minister of Defense and Dr....
Dr. Sha’bān ‘Abdul ‘Alīm, member of the presidential council of the Nūr Party, stated that they refuse the requests of the representatives of the Church in the Constituent Assembly concerning the Coptic quota. He said that it will divide the country and stressed that according to the Constitution,...
Bishop Bola, member of the Basic Principles Subcommittee in the Constituent Assembly, withdrew from a meeting yesterday. The meeting was held to hear the suggestions of the Nūr Party representative, but the chair objected to being given only one minute to respond to the representative of the Nūr...
Bishop Agabius of Dayr Mawās and Daljā has criticized the Minister of Housing Eng. Ibrāhīm Mahlab and the Governor of Minya, Salāh Zīādah, for their inaction as they did not make any decisions thus far to restore three churches (Bishop Abram Church, The Virgin Monastery, and Mar Girgis Church) that...
Bishop Makarios stated that his assassination attempt is a “test to the government” by the assailants in order to see how the government will react (Abdul Wahāb Sha’baān, al-Wafd, Oct. 3, p. 4). Read the original text in Arabic.
Political factions and youth movements have denounced the assassination attempt against Bishop Makarios in Minya. Majdī Hamdān, a member of the Democratic Front Party, condemned what he described as a despicable and cowardly assassination attempt against Bishop Makarios. He stressed that this...
Bishop Bolis Halīm, the official spokesman of the Coptic Orthodox Church, stated that Pope Tawadros II will head the meeting of the Holy Synod on November 21 and that the Synodical committee will meet in the Holy Synod on November the 18 (Michael Fāris, al-Yūm al-Sābi’, Nov. 12) Read the original...
The Coptic Orthodox Church has sent a memorandum to ‘Amr Mūsá, the head of the Constituent Assembly, requesting him to either cancel any interpretation of the “principles of Islamic sharī’ah,” including any in the preamble or to adhere to the interpretation presented by the SCC (Supreme...
Participants in a conference entitled, “Positive Discrimination- the Path to Citizenship,” discussed how positive discrimination can resolve the problems of the Copts. Coptic organizations are exerting political pressure to get the Coptic quota in parliament approved by the Constituent Assembly. 
After an absence of seven months for security reasons, Pope Tawadros II, visited the Seat of St. Mark on Friday (Nov. 8). He will head the evening and the morning mass of St. Mark’s feast. Then Pope Tawadros will meet with the bishops in order to appoint 12 new bishops to a number of churches in...

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