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Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2012
A St. Mark Cathedral source welcomed initiatives by the January 25 revolution youths to protect the cathedral, emphasizing Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III’s confidence in the interior ministry and the army and, above all, God in the protection of the Eastern Coptic Christmas Mass on January 7....
Date of source: Friday, December 30, 2011
Minister of Education Jamāl al-‘Arabī took a decision to postpone the exams of January 1 and 8, 2012 in response to demands by a number of Coptic students who gathered outside the ministry on December 29 who sought the postponement so they can celebrate the New Year and the Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: Saturday, November 12, 2011
The Ministry of Justice referred the fact-finding committee's report on Maspero incidents and al-Marīnāb to the military judiciary.
A number of political experts had criticized referring the report to the military judiciary, adding that a civil judiciary would have been able to investigate on the...
Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2011
Residents of al-Marīnab village, Idfū town in Aswan governorate called on Copts to take the church crisis to court, and they vowed to build the church if the court approves its construction.
The Catholic Church suggested eight amendments to the unified law for building houses of worship, and asked...
Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2011
Archpriest 'Abd al-Masīh Basīt of the Virgin Mary Church in Musturud said calls for opening and searching churches should be exclusively addressed to Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III.
"Churches, however, have nothing to hide because they are only houses of worship," Basīt said in statements to the...
Date of source: Sunday, April 17, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church is suspending a dialogue and rapprochement meetings with the Muslim Brotherhood after statements by leading MB member Mahmūd 'Izat regarding endeavors to establish and Islamic nation and application of the hudūd, according to Church sources.
The Church has reversed plans...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Dr. Muhammad Badī', Muslim Brotherhood's Murshid [Guide], said that the group will announce the MB's Freedom and Justice Party to the Media.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Writer and political thinker Dr. Rafīk Habīb, confirmed that he was one of the Copts which the Muslim Brotherhood approached to join MB's Freedom and Justice party.
"I do not think there is something wrong in joining Freedom and Justice party," says Habīb.
He added that it is better for the country...
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