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Date of source: Thursday, February 26, 2015
Tawadros inaugurated the new church of virgins and martyrs. Besides Tawadros, a number of representatives from the Christian community of Egypt attended the prayer.
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Date of source: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
The Egyptian Housing Ministry agreed with the request of Pope Tawadros to grant a piece of land in new Cairo to the Coptic church in order to build a supplementary headquarters to the St. Mark’s Cathedral in ‘Abbāsiyya. The Ministry also agreed to increase the area of land designated for building...
Date of source: Monday, January 5, 2015
CAWU Researcher Rene Witteveen met with Mina Magdy, General Coordinator of the Maspero Youth Union on October 10th 2014.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 14, 2015
President ̔Abd al-Fattāh al-Sīsī today issued a presidential decree to license an Anglican church.
Date of source: Saturday, January 3, 2015
Permission given to build a church in Istanbul for the first time in the history of Turkey
Sources with the Prime Minister’s Council confirmed that the Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has agreed to give a piece of land to a Christian tribe to build a new church in Yashīl Kawī in Istanbul. The...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Badrān: Personal status laws are creating a new generation of children on the streets
Doctor Hudā Badrān, the President of the Egyptian Women’s Union, said that Personal Status Laws are most focused on the role of the family, adding that the laws treat women as they were treated decades ago. She...
Date of source: Saturday, April 5, 2014
The discussion about the electoral law for the papal election in the Coptic Orthodox Church has been raging for many decades since 1957. When Pope Yusab II passed away, leading members of the Sunday School Movement, a reform movement in the church, entered monastic life and presented themselves as...
Date of source: Thursday, August 22, 2013
The final outcome of the Brotherhood’s fatwá is the inevitable disappearance of churches in Dār al-Islām (Islamic countries), which logically entails that there is no place for non-Muslims in Egypt. The Shaykh ends his fatwá stressing that building churches in Islamic countries is not permitted.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 28, 2013
On April 25, 2013, Jihad Watch contributor Raymond Ibrahim (Ibrāhīm) published in Middle East Forum what he titled “Death to Churches Under Islam; A Study of the Coptic Church.”
His text is a collection of frequently returning claims without proper sourcing, falsely pretending statements of some...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
During a Defence and Security Committee held Monday, April 22 at the Shūrá Council, Dr. Samir Marcos (Samīr Marqus), an assistant to the former President, emphasized that Egypt has witnessed armed violence against Copts and the Church for the last thirty years.The Committee was called for in order...
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