Date of source: Monday, November 12, 2007
The critical health condition of Pope Shenouda aroused arguments about his expected successor. While a group of laymen calls for a new law to be established for the papal elections, the church expresses its discontentment towards what it considers to be the laymen’s interference in church’s affairs...
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2007
The Egyptian media reported Copts fears over Pope Shenouda’s health after the patriarch was suddenly admitted to hospital. The pope’s condition is stable and he is expected to resume his normal duties soon.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2007 to Friday, November 16, 2007
In the article, Bishop Maximus I, head of Saint
Athanasius Church’s Synod, responds to a previous article by the Copt journalist Hānī Labīb, in which
he had attacked Maximus.
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2007
The South Sinai Orthodox Diocese has accused the local authorities of the Ra’s Sidr city of
destroying a tree fence surrounding Mar Girgis Church, on claims that it was unofficially planted on state-owned
land.
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2007
Bishop Bīshūy’s interview was greeted with strong protest. Religious and laymen figures refute what they consider to be a slanderous and distorted reality in the bishop’s declaration.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2007 to Friday, November 16, 2007
Rose al-Yūsuf
magazine devoted a 15-page file to discuss the recent ’fearful’ phenomenon that spread like wildfire in
governmental hospitals where a high percentage of nurses turned to wear the Niqāb.
Date of source: Thursday, November 1, 2007
Pope Shenouda III travels to the U.S. suddenly for medical treatment.
Date of source:
al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah’s incarcerated members agreed on the introspection recently proposed by the ideologue of the Islamic groups. However, leaders of Islamic groups still disagree on the introspections of al-Jamā‘ah. Conversely al-Jamā‘ah calls on the leftist parties of Hadtū and the Labor...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 31, 2007
In the article, the criticisms of a number of thinkers and politicians have been continually targeting the banned Muslim Brotherhood group on their proposed manifesto for their political party, which has excluded non-Muslims and women from running for presidency.
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2008
AWR visited Father Mattá to hear about the sectarian violence in Jabal al-Tayr, Minia.
Al-Miṣrī al-Yawm interviewed Bishop Bīshūy, General Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church.