Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2010
This article defends the Church against attacks it faced after it declared its refusal to implement the court decision giving permission for divorcees to remarry.
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2010
This article deals with the recent Church refusal and Pope’s Shenouda’s comments concerning the ruling of the Egyptian Court saying that re-marriage should be granted to divorcees who were divorced within legal bounds.
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2010
This article deals with the recent Church refusal to accept the Egyptian Court ruling that re-marriage should be granted to divorcees who were divorced within legal bounds.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
In an interview on the television program Manshette, the Pope denied claims of the Church being a "state within a state" calling it a "provoking" allegation and said that he prays for the forgiveness of anyone attacking his person during the Kamilia crisis. He said that all three Churches approve...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A number of Egyptian lawyers and intellectuals, calling themselves the Egyptian Committee in Solidarity with Dr. Al-Awa, expressed their disapproval of the Church's attack on Dr. Mohamed Selim El-Awa's recent comments during an interview with Al-Jazeera. The committee says that Dr. El-Awa speaks...
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2010
Dr. Selim El-Awa made serious allegations against the church, which could result in sectarian conflict. In response, Father Abdel Maseeh Baseet said that churches are packed with state security officers, making it impossible for weapons to pass unnoticed. Martyrdom in Christian terms is verbal not...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2010
In response to Selim El-Awa's allegations, Bishop Basanty said that all monasteries are open to the public. He also said that Bishop Bishoy's claims of Muslims initially being visitors in Egypt are historically accurate and were meant in a peaceful manner. He said that Kamilia Shehata and Wafaa...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2010
Joseph Botros Athnasious Botros Al-Gabalawy is being held in custody with charges of smuggling weapons in from Israel to be hidden in churches. Investigations concluded last August 11th, however, showed that the shipment did not contain weapons, but fireworks that came in from China and not Israel...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2010
Salim Al-Awwa's allegation of Copts hiding weapons in churches and detaining converts to Islam on the Al-Jazeera channel sparked various reactions. Representative of the Congregation Council, Father Salib Matta Sawiris, denied Salim's allegations and called them "sick". Essam Sultan urged Coptic...
Date of source: Friday, September 17, 2010
Councilor Ahmed Shams has been responsible for some of the most significant rulings throughout the last 40 years in which he has been a member of the judiciary. The most recent of these ruling is Copts' right to second marriage, a matter with which Pope Shenouda III refuses to comply.
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