Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2006
Majdī Khalīl highlights the absolute importance of the concept of citizenship for Copts, believing that Copts should focus their attention on having their citizenship rights granted to them. He poses a number of suggestions on how to activate the Copts’ role in the Egyptian socio-political spectrum...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2006
President Mubārak’s attendance of Hannā Nāshid’s requiem raised questions about the reason he was distinguished amongst other prominent Coptic figures.
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2006
The author critizes an article by the German magazine Der Spiegel about Christians in the Middle East. She claims that the article distorts the reality of the situation in the declining Christian communities in the region.
Date of source: Saturday, January 27, 2007
The problem of Kifāyah is its lack of a clear vision that could safeguard its unity. It also mixes up its objective to modernize the Egyptian political system with other slogans that have led to ideological problems and splits.
Date of source: Monday, January 29, 2007
The campaign launched by the Chairman of Copts United ‘Adlī Abādīr to remove the second article of the Constitution would have passed unnoticed if Bishop Marqus, the Coptic Church official spokesman who revealed that he supported amending the article, had not made a statement on the matter.
Date of source: Monday, January 29, 2007
The crisis of al- Muqattam Church presided over by the so-called Maximus ? is experiencing new developments that may end the famous issue that preoccupied the church’s circles in Egypt last year, after the Greek Church did not recognize the religious legitimacy of Bishop Mavias and the priests that...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Bishop Mikhā’īl has issued a decision to freeze the activity of Father Bāsīliūs al- Maqārī for he authored and published five books as well as the monastery’s books without placing the pope’s photo on them. Further reasons for the freeze on his activity were based on the suspicions of church’s...
Date of source: Monday, January 29, 2007
The European Coptic Association, in order to create ferment in the Egyptian streets, called to unify all efforts exerted and to distribute work evenle between organizations that work inside and outside Egypt rather than working individually, through a working plan based on specific principles.
Date of source: Monday, January 29, 2007
The daughter of Sāmī ‘Aṭīyah, who was killed by a Muslim bully, held her wedding ceremony at Mary Antonius Church in al-Zaqāzīq, wearing black instead of her wedding dress, to protest against the security’s failure to apprehend the suspect and to their collusion with him.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Aḥmad al-Si‘dāwī interviews Bishop Marqus to ask him about his declarations concerning the constitutional reform in Egypt.