Date of source: Monday, April 3, 2006
Disputes over the property of a piece of land, adjacent to the al-Mar‘ashlī Church in Zamālik have arisen following accusations of forgery against Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark.
Date of source: Sunday, March 26, 2006
Discussion of the history of the Majlis al-Mīllī, the Coptic Orthodox denominational council, and the current problems it faces.
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2006
Father Youhannā Nasīf from Alexandria tackles the expansion of the number of Coptic schools in Egypt. He suggests building new Coptic schools to eliminate fanatical ideologies and to increase acceptance of ‘the other’.
Date of source: Friday, March 17, 2006
Christians who convert to Islam then change their minds and want to return to Christianity face legal problems concerning the religion category on their national identity cards.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2005
In an interview with Rose al-Yousuf, the head of the Protestant Majlis al-Mīllī or Community Council in Egypt, Rev. Safwat al-Bayyādī speaks about freedom of expression, Coptic marriage, divorce, U.S. Copts’ conferences and more.
Date of source: Friday, December 30, 2005
An informed source at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo has denied rumors that the embassy has taken procedures to dismiss 20 Muslim employees working on its premises.
Date of source: Saturday, December 31, 2005
CSI’s focus on defending the religious freedom of persecuted Christians seems to lead them to very quickly interpret any incident, or rumor of an incident, as persecution. As a response, the author suggests that, rather than sending protest letters to the respective governments, international...
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
An article about the Muslim Brotherhood’s intent to establish a state that has a religious, and not civil nature, and the attitude of the Muslim Brotherhood towards the Copts.
Date of source: Friday, March 3, 2006
In an interview, Bishop Marqus, the spokesman of Pope Shenouda III discusses the Muslim Brotherhood, the establishment of religious political parties and the church’s attitude to divorce.
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2006 to Friday, March 10, 2006
The author discusses the grave threats posed by minorities in countries like Iraq, Syria and Lebanon as sectarian strife and clashes between Sunnis and Shi’ites in Iraq takes its toll on the country’s stability.