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The Pope of Ethiopia: the Renaissance Dam will not harm Egypt Pope Matyāof Ethiopia thanked Pope Tawadros for his invitation to visit Egypt and reiterated his belief in the necessity of developing the relationship between the two parishes. Pope Matyā assured Pope Tawadros that all of the impact...
Who will be Egypt’s next president? Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Mursī or the representative of the old National Democratic Party, Ahmad Shafiq? Both claim victory. Mursī has claimed victory from the first minute that the polling stations closed on June 17. How he could know this? I don’t...
Cornelis Hulsman, Editor-in-Chief AWR: We are very pleased that Douglas May started working with CIDT as international coordinator and financial manager on February 1, 2012. While Doug was appointed due to his financial skills and experience, he also has an excellent background in Muslim-Christian...
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III is often praised, in particular by his own followers, for his ecumenical stances. The reality is, however, somewhat different, as the decisions of the Coptic Orthodox Holy Synod show. All synod meetings were presided over by Pope Shenouda, a strong and charismatic...
Pope Benedict XVI met with the new Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil el-Arabi on 18 May, 2011, amid concerns over the safety of Christians caught up in the Arab revolutions of the Middle East. The meeting, which followed talks between Arabi and Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican's foreign minister, took...
On Wednesday April 13, the Egyptian foreign ministry announced  that the Coptic Orthodox Church may play a role in the current River Nile water negotiations. Ambassador Muná ‘Umar, Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs, explained that "very strong relations are binding the Egyptian and...
    As southern Sudan prepares to vote this week on a possible secession from the north, Sunnī Khālid says that the African-American community is also divided on the issue...      
Experts in many fields are making contributions and investments to finding a resolution for the NileBasin dilemma.
This is a series of various recent articles with Copts making the headlines.
In spite of the strong spiritual ties between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Church, the latter does interfere in the issue of the Nile water crisis between Ethiopia and Egypt, as it believes it is a political, not spiritual, matter.

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