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Date of source: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The ceremony to elect three out of five candidates in the papal elections was carried by the Egyptian TV and radio thanks to support from the church and the voting committee.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Hudá Mikhail ‘Abd al-Malik, a former director general from Cairo, praised women’s representation in the committee overseeing the papal elections.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Bishop Antonius of Ireland and Scotland said all expatriate Copts are keen on attending the great day of elections that some of them had private flight reservations, adding all Copts would cooperate with the new patriarch for the good of the church. [
Date of source: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Bishop Bula, the official spokesman for the papal elections committee, said children wishing to participate in a competition to choose one of them who will take the altar lot, a process that will end in naming the new pope who will sit on the Saint Mark chair.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The election of the 118th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church took place on Monday (October 29) in a democratic atmosphere as three out of five candidates will be qualified to the alter lot scheduled for Sunday (November 4) to choose a successor of Pope Shenouda III, who passed away in March 2012.
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2012
The constituent assembly writing a new constitution for Egypt is facing collapse from within as less 48 hour after civil parties and movements suspended their activities the representatives of the three churches announced on Friday (November 16) withdrawal in protest over certain articles in the...
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2012
All Copts of Egypt will most probably come together on a key demand for the new pope, which is to avoid getting the church involved in politics and to clearly separate between religion and political activism by concentrating on the church’s spiritual role.
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2012
The papal elections will be held today (October 29) at the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah as 2412 voters will cast their ballots in eight boxes. The voting process will end at 05:00 pm, after which counting will start immediately before announcing the names of three of...
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2012
The Salafī Front, in a statement on Sunday (October 28), refused to send a Coptic girl, who disappeared since late last month and has reportedly converted to Islam and married a Muslim young man, back to her family in Mersa Matrouh. [Mustafá Rahūmah, Sa’īd Hijāzī and Muhammad Bakhāt, al-Watan, Oct...
Date of source: Sunday, October 28, 2012
Monday (October 29) will be the day long awaited by Copts – eight months – to elect a successor for Pope Shenouda III, who passed away on March 17, 2012, to sit on the chair of Saint Mark, one of the apostles of Jesus, and who preached the Gospel in Egypt.
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.