Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2012
Preacher Dr. Safwat Hijāzī said in an interview with al-Usbū' that the state will be governed by a constitution, not by means of fatwás from the clerics of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) or the Salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party.
All that is said about the Azhar having brought...
Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2012
Leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party held a meeting with a delegation of church clergymen upon an invitation by the FJP to study problems and work on reaching solutions to them.
The Coptic delegation comprised Bishop Estephanus of the Virgin Mary Church, Dr. Kamāl...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Several Coptic and Muslim Brotherhood thinkers called for assuring Copts and belie rumors that only aim to spark fitnah between the two groups in the society, particularly in the light of the critical stage Egypt is experiencing and which requires everyone to enhance cooperation and unity.
Coptic...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
A large number of activists and representatives of political movements on Thursday (January 19), started a march demanding the release of blogger Michael Nabīl, chanting slogans rejecting that civilians be brought before military courts.
Nabīl's father, who participated in the march that started...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Meanwhile, the Cairo Court of Appeal set the Būlāq Abū al-‘Ilā Court of Misdemeanor to look into the lawsuit accusing Coptic business magnate Najīb Sawirus of disdaining religions and defaming Islam for publishing anti-Islam cartoons on the Internet.
Mamdūh Ismā’īl, a member of Egyptian Bar...
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2012
Meanwhile, Yusrī Hammād, the media spokesman for the Salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party, said the party refuses to participate in the Coptic Orthodox Church’s celebrations of the Christmas Mass, adding the party has not even received an invitation from the cathedral.
“Muslims should not participate in any...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2012
A St. Mark Cathedral source welcomed initiatives by the January 25 revolution youths to protect the cathedral, emphasizing Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III’s confidence in the interior ministry and the army and, above all, God in the protection of the Eastern Coptic Christmas Mass on January 7....
Date of source: Sunday, January 1, 2012
Islam criminalizes attacks on churches and non-Muslim houses of worship as Islamists, namely the Muslim Brotherhood and a number of Salafī parties, volunteered to protect churches during the New Year celebrations. [Dīyā' Abū al-Safā, Akhbār al-Yawm, p. 7, Jan. 1]
Date of source: Monday, January 2, 2012
A large number of candidates running in the third round of the parliamentary elections paid visits to the church to congratulate it over the New Year while candidates of the Salafī al-Nūr Party refrained.
Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Holy Synod, refused to meet any candidates, adding that the...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2016
The Eminence of the Grand Imam Dr. Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭayib, the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, visited the Cathedral of St. Mark in Al- ʿAbassiyyah yesterday to congratulate Pope Tawadros II and the Coptic brothers on the occasion of the Easter Feast. The Grand Imam was received by His Holiness Pope Tawadros II...