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Date of source: Sunday, October 13, 2013
The Church of the Archbishop Michael in 6th of October City hosted the holy mass in commemoration of the Maspero Massacre and was attended by the families of the victims. Bishop Rafael, the Secretary of the Holy Synod, led the mass. Bishop Rafael stated that they await justice from the Egyptian...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 11, 2014
The Family Court refused to grant the first ‘detached’ [monsalekh] person from the Orthodox Coptic Church, Anīs ʿAbd al-Masīh, a divorce, and who claims to have taken this step for ideological reasons. He also demanded the issuing of a civil law in regards to Christian personal status so that the...
Date of source: Saturday, November 8, 2014
The author believes that two years into his papacy, Pope Tawadros II appears more interested in travelling than tending to his congregation and the Church’s internal problems. He believes this has led to discontent among Copts and a split in the ranks of the Church. An element of this split is the...
Date of source: Thursday, October 11, 2018
The ecumenical dialogue and the review of differences, that created the great schism in 451 in the Council of Chalcedon, constitute an essential point in the existing conflict inside the Coptic Orthodox Church between the hard-line and the reformist currents. The hard-line current that had been...
Date of source: Monday, December 3, 2018
Coptic Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of the Church of Alexandria and the Holy See of St. Marc, Tawāḍrūs II, received at the papal headquarters in al-ʿAbbasiya, Archbishop of Aswan and the Head of the Monastery of Saint Bākhumiyyūs at Hājir in Edfu, Bishop Hidrā.
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2018
Egyptian media articles released this morning tackled many issues, some of which are reviewed below:
Date of source: Friday, December 28, 2018
In few days the year 2018 will end, but major events occurred that will need decisions of the Holy Synod, presided by Pope Tawāḍrūs II.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Knowledgeable Church sources informed al-Dustūr that Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark, made rearranging the ecclesiastical home his first priority immediatelyafter returning from his current visit to the United States.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2018
“Divorce is granted only in the case of adultery”—This is the solution the Coptic Constitution offers those who are affected by personal status crises and seek separation and divorce. The late Pope Shinūda III issued a regulation in 2008 that expanded the reasons for divorce to two: adultery...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 10, 2018
It's been five years since Pope Tawāḍrūs II of Alexandria, started his papacy. During this term, he was keen to introduce multiple changes in the church system.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.