Date of source: Thursday, March 20, 2014
Pope Tawadros has accused human rights reports on Copts in Egypt of being “purposefully distorted misunderstandings” during one of his statements to a satellite channel [the article did not mention the channel].
Date of source: Monday, September 15, 2014
Bishop Yoannis, Archbishop of Services and the former secretary of the Pope stated that the Church presented all the problems of the Copts to president al-Sīsī, including those of abduction and forced eviction and church building.
Date of source: Monday, September 8, 2014
Coptic Sources stated that the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church is witnessing a state of division.
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2018
Despite confessing before the official investigation authorities of his complicity with the defrocked Monk Ishʿayāʾ al-Maqārī in the murder of Anbā Epiphaniyūs, Bishop of the St. Makāriyyūs Monastery in Wādī al-Natrūn, but the Holy Synod’s Monastic Affairs Committee has not yet decided the fate of...
Date of source: Saturday, August 2, 2014
A single paper with Father Bishoy’s words on it declaring a ban on women and girls from wearing trousers and make-up when going to church and attending communion has ignited fervent anger from Copts against the bishop.
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2012
The legal office of expatriate Copts, headquartered in Switzerland, announced convening a number of workshops for Coptic counselors and lawyers in Geneva, Washington, Sweden and Egypt to offer their visions about the general principles outlining the new constitution.
The office underlined the...
Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2012
“Christians have the eagerness to visit holy places exactly like that eagerness felt by Muslims to perform pilgrimage to the Ka’bah,” according to an informed church source who did not want his name mentioned.
He denied that those trips to Jerusalem will have any effect on the decision adopted by...
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2012
Furthermore, nine parties from inside and outside parliament as well as four independents are in the assembly, where the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) took the majority of the constitution panel. The assembly includes 25 FJP members, 11 from al-Nūr Party, three from al-Wafd, two from the Egyptian...
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2012
Furthermore, nine parties from inside and outside parliament as well as four independents are in the assembly, where the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) took the majority of the constitution panel. The assembly includes 25 FJP members, 11 from al-Nūr Party, three from al-Wafd, two from the Egyptian...
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2012
Furthermore, nine parties from inside and outside parliament as well as four independents are in the assembly, where the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) took the majority of the constitution panel. The assembly includes 25 FJP members, 11 from al-Nūr Party, three from al-Wafd, two from the Egyptian...