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Date of source: Thursday, November 22, 2012
A state of anxiety and tension is overwhelming the headquarters of the Holy Synod secretary after almost confirmed information that Pope Tawāḍrūs was planning a shakeup within the Synod’s administrative structure that would include changing Bishop Bīshūy, who has been the Synod’s secretary for 27...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Shākir Arbān, legal representative for Washington Copts organization, sent a memo to the Egyptian presidency asking the President to remove Maurice Sādiq and other expatriate Coptic leaders from the list of people declared persona non grata.This came after rumors of releasing Wajdī Ghunaym as one...
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church held a series of meetings marked by confidentiality with some bishops of the Holy Synod to reach a guiding list of some presidential candidates to agree on one of them to be backed by the church in the forthcoming elections.
The church has set some...
Date of source: Thursday, April 19, 2012
Archpriest Andarāwus ‘Azīz Sulaymān, who obtained a court ruling in 2002 to return to his priestly position, said he received a phone call from a woman working at the papal office, adding the phone conversation revealed information about the destiny of some priests and bishops who were banished...
Date of source: Thursday, January 17, 2013
Bishop Bīshūy, known as the late Pope Shenouda III’s “right-hand”, has been described as undiplomatic and extreme in his ideas that are prejudiced against other Christian Churches. He had publicly accused Protestant Evangelicals of recruiting Orthodox youth as part of a broader plot to evangelize...
Date of source: Thursday, March 9, 2017
One of the most important problems under the reign of Pope Kīrullus VI concerned those who were suspended from obtaining marriage permits.
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2012
Clergymen of the Orthodox and Catholic churches, provoked by the decision, met to agree on a statement to distance themselves from the "Evangelical church's actions that violate the teachings of the forefathers and the faith."
A memo is reportedly being in the making to set a new way of dealing...
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Ahmad Abāzah, a convert to Christianity, accused Mubārak, his son Jamāl, and Habīb al-'Adlī, of persecuting Christians and using Christian laymen to attack expatriate Copts.
Abāzah said that he will not come to Egypt until the last Muslim converts to Christianity on the Nile River.
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2010
The article discusses the exclusion of Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses from the new personal status law for Christians.
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2011
Egyptians continue to react to the news that an Egyptian court has decided on the death sentence for Hammām al-Kamūnī, the man convicted for his part in the shooting of six Christians and a Muslim security officer outside a church in Naj‘ Hammādī in January, 2010.
According to Sawt al-Ummah on...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.