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Christianity in the Arab World was flourishing in relative terms prior to the First World War and consequent break-up of the Ottoman Empire.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Counselor Muhammad 'Abd al-'Azīz, Minister of Justice, formed a judiciary committee to settle the situation of un-licensed churches after admitting the draft law of worship places, other than mosques.
Governors would have all the authority to give license to built, renew, demolish or rejuvenate a...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Members of the Islamic Research Academy are against the unified law for building worship places and demanded the cabinet decision on 2011 that regulates building mosques.
An urgent meeting of the members of the Academy headed by Azhar Grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, stressed that a special law...
Date of source: Saturday, September 10, 2011
Dr. Fatmah Sayīd Ahmad began the interview with Major General Abū Bakr al-Jindī, President of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), by asking that all the statistics that were prohibited former regime, related to the census of Christians and Nubians in Egypt, be made...
Date of source: Sunday, August 28, 2011
Last Sunday, Pope Shenouda III inaugurated the first Coptic Orthodox Church in Hungary, in Budapest’s eighteenth district. The Pope presided over an evening service ceremony during which he anointed and consecrated the altar and the icons of the church which was named for the Holy Virgin and the...
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Review of Elizabeth Edward’s “Coptic Orthodox statistics and migration in Maghagha”
Date of source: Sunday, July 3, 2011
Ramsīs al-Najār, lawyer and the individual responsible for the file of closed churches, said that there are 58 requests to open Coptic Orthodox churches presently before the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and only a few numbers have been opened.
Al-Najār said that there is a church in...
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Sūl village of ‘Ātfīh in Helwan governorate had witnessed a sectarian incident when a group of Muslims demolished and burned the Church of the Two Martyrs, Saint Mina and Saint George.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Efforts continue to resolve the issue of Church in 'Ātfīh. The church of Two Martyrs St. Mina and St. George was set on fire by angry Muslim young-men, after seeing a Muslim girl with a christian young-man called 'Āshraf Labīb. The church is located in Sūl village of 'Ātfīh (Governorate of Helwan...
Date of source: Monday, May 31, 2010
This article deals with the incidence of al-Barād‘ī visiting some of the historical and religious sights in Old Cairo.