Date of source: Thursday, July 3, 2014
The Coptic Orthodox Church has stated that the first phase of the renovation of the churches that were destroyed in the aftermath of the dispersal of Rab’ah and Nahdah sit ins on August 14, 2013, was completed in five governorates.
Date of source: Monday, August 28, 2017
CTV interviewed Pope TawāḍrūsII following the opening of the first Coptic Church in Japan during his first ever visit to the country. “We built the church upon the request of Copts in Japan so that they do not feel isolated,” said the Pope. A priest from Australia will be delegated to serve...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Pastor Rūīs Mikhā’īl of the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Rūīs in Bahrain that the Coptic Orthodox Churchin Bahrain is considering constructing a base during the upcoming period, after having acquired a piece of land, provided by the Bahraini monarch King Ḥamd bin ʿĪsā al-Khalīfa as a...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Infirād website presents a number of facts about the new administrative capital church, which will be built at the request of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī, during his Christmas mass speech.
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2017
“This design is preliminary and not final,” said Rev. Būlus Ḥalīm, official spokesperson for the Coptic Orthodox Church, commenting on a picture of the cathedral in the new administrative capital, which was released by al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ and signed by Pope Tawāḍrūs II.
Date of source: Thursday, February 1, 2007
Bishop Marqus is Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Shubrā al-Khaymah, Cairo since 1978. On more than one occasion, Bishop Marqus has rejected Coptic activists' allegations that Copts in Egypt are persecuted by the Egyptian government or by Muslims in general. The Bishop said that foreign...
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The issue of church building in Egypt is among the most misunderstood and misreported subjects affecting Muslim-Christian relations.
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: 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...