Date of source: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Coptic Pope Shenouda III met with the Minister of Local Development Muhsin al-Nu'māni in Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in al-‘Abāsiyah on March 28, 2011.
The Coptic Pope said that they discussed having a community dialogue between all religious main-streams: the church, the Azhar,...
Date of source: Thursday, March 24, 2011
Coptic Pope Shenouda III denied previous media reports, according to which he had discussed a potential meeting between Copts and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
The MB, on the other hand, is holding on to its view that the possibility of a meeting was discussed, that would have granted Copts the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The phone call made by Muslim Brotherhood murshid (guide) Muhammad Badī' to Coptic Pope Shenouda III after the latter's return from a treatment trip in the United States and the pope's phone call back to Badī' brought about an air of optimism for the relations between the two sides.
Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2011
Coptic Pope Shinūdā III, suggested an addition to Article II of the Constitution, which stipulates Islamic sharīʿāh as the main source of Egypt's legislation.
On a Sunday meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Yaḥyā al-Jamāl, Pope Shinūdā asked to add a clause to the article for non-Muslim...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Deputy Prime Minister Yaḥyā al-Jamāl visited Coptic Pope Shinūdā III at the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-ʿAbbāssīyah.
Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2011
Egypt's Prime Minister 'Isām Sharaf greeted Coptic Pope Shenouda III during his visit to the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral on March 20, 2011.
Sharaf congratulated Pope Shenouda on his safe return from the US where he received medical treatment.
On Saturday, Sharaf had paid his first visit to the Azhar'...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2011
On Tuesday 15 February, a commission from the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church met Pope Shenouda III, during which they issued the following statement:
“The Coptic Church salutes Egypt’s honourable young people who on 25 January 2011 led Egypt through a powerful white revolution. To that...
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
Editor: AWR received this text before President Mubarak announced he would step down. Nothing in the media indicated that this could happen tonight, yet it did.
Ever since the demonstrations began on January 25, men of religion have been stressing the importance of them not being transformed from...
Date of source: Thursday, January 27, 2011
As Egyptian opposition protests enter their third day, some leaders in the Coptic Orthodox Church are urging their members not to participate, which has caused a reaction by some Christians who feel the church should be involved...
Date of source: Monday, December 13, 2010
Pope Shenouda postponed returning from Monastery of Saint Bīshūy (Dayr Anbā Bīshūy) in Wādī al-Natrūn that was scheduled in Sunday December 12, 2010.
Pope didn't state the time of his arrival but its expected that it will be before his well-known weekly sermon in Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox...