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Copts on Friday (November 2) finished three days of fasting called by the church after the results of the papal elections that brought three finalists to enter a sacred draw on Sunday (November 4) to name the new pope.
The Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah on Friday (November 2) finalized preparations and procedures of the Altar Lot process to pick the 118th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church in succession of Pope Shenouda III, who passed away on March 17, 2012.
Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd newspaper published a cartoon deriding the Muslim Brotherhood’s domination over state positions. It showed three Christian clergymen telling a child, supposedly the one to take the alter lot to name of one three finalists as pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church on Sunday (November...
Sunday (November 4) will mark the altar lot that would name a new pope to succeed Pope Shenouda III, who passed away on March 17, 2012, among three candidates – Bishop Raphael, Bishop Tawdrus and Archpriest Raphael Ava Mina.
Bishop Pachomius said so far 70 children wishing to do the altar lot applied for the procedure that would name the 118th pope of the chair of Saint Mark. Only one child will be picked in a lot on Sunday (November 4). 
The Egyptian Center for Development Studies and Human Rights, in a statement on Tuesday (October 30), appealed to the new pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church not to get the church isolated from politics, particularly in the light of hegemony by the Islamist groups, in an attempt to preserve the “...
The Salafī Front warned the Egyptian church against attempts to internationalize the issue Sarah Ishaq ‘Abd al-Malik, a Coptic girl the Front says has converted to Islam, refusing the description of the issue as “persecution of Copts”. “The church is trying to use the issue as a trump card to get...
Public Coptic figures agreed that acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius has successfully run the transitional period that has been tough for the church. [
The Coptic Orthodox Church has witnessed a fine democratic day on Monday (October 29) to elect the 118th pope for the first time in more than 40 years with a massive turnout of voters up to 94%.
Thirty-one eligible archons representing the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria participated in the elections on Monday (October 29), said Kimīl Siddīq, Secretary of the Lay Council in the Mediterranean city.

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