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Date of source: Friday, February 21, 2014
Al- Tahrīr reported that the new Papal Regulations List included some amendments to the 1957 Papal Regulations List. It maintained the papal selection process by a draw. It allowed monks, archbishops, or a monastery bishop to nominate themselves for the seat of patriarch. It also requested the...
Date of source: Friday, February 21, 2014
For the first time in the Church’s history Pope Tawadros has visited Ambassador Ahmad Qattān, the Saudi ambassador to the Arab League. Church sources stated that the purpose of the visit was to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its noble actions towards the Egyptians. He also expressed his...
Date of source: Friday, February 21, 2014
Churches and security sources stated that more than 10,000 human remains have been burnt due to the start of a fire in the main cemetery in Kūm Umbū in the North of Aswan. The preliminary investigations showed that the fire started due to excessive heat. This is due to the piles of bodies that...
Date of source: Friday, February 21, 2014
Pope Tawadros II has met Saad al- Harīrī, the former prime minister of Lebanon. Al- Harīrī stated that Egypt’s success will have a positive effect on all neighboring states (Marco ‘Ādil, al- Akhbār, Feb. 21, p. 8). Read original text online in Arabic.
Date of source: Thursday, February 20, 2014
Egyptian Churches celebrated the first anniversary of establishing the Coptic Church Council that includes the Orthodox, Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Evangelical and Episcopal Churches. The heads of the five churches held a closed meeting in which they approved the regulations list for the council....
Date of source: Monday, July 14, 2014
Councelor Ibrahīm Hunaidī the Minister of Transitional Justice has met with the delegation of the Egyptian Churches to discuss the draft law on Church Building and Renovation that has been stipulated in article 235 of the Constitution.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Yesterday, Pope Tawadros II, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, opened the second annual session of the Holy Synod, which was held at the Monastery of Anbā Bishoy in Wādī al-Natrūn under the title “Towards a Better Future for the Church.” The session was dedicated to the discussion of the...
Date of source: Thursday, July 10, 2014
Fr. Bolus Halīm, media spokesman of the Coptic Orthodox Church, denied that a highly explosive bomb was placed on the streets surrounding the cathedral in Abbāssiah, and it was defused.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Bishop Mūsá, Bishop of Youth in the Coptic Orthodox Church, condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a tourist bus in Tābā, South Sinai, which led to the death of four and injured 16 others, saying that it tarnishes Egypt’s reputation (Shaymā’ Faraj, al-Dustūr, Feb. 18, p. 5). Read original...
Date of source: Thursday, July 10, 2014
In an interview, Bishop Yunas, the archbishop in St Mark’s Cathedral in Abāssiyah stated that so far, there are no names of people nominated by the church for the parliament.
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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.