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16.Churches denounce the election coincide with Christian holidays
Date of source: Saturday, February 23, 2013
27-28 April, the dates of the first round of the elections, coincide with the beginning of the Holy Week and Palm Sunday, while the runoffs scheduled for 4-5 May clash with Holy Saturday and Easter, said Bishop Rafiq Gereish, the head of the Catholic Church’s media office.  “Didn’t the president...
58. A Church welcome Upon Return Of Al-ʾĀmirīyah’s Banished Coptic Families back To Homes
Date of source: Saturday, February 18, 2012 to Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Coptic leaders and church sources welcomed the decisions by the People’s Assembly human rights committee and the ‘urfī (informal) conciliatory panel to have Coptic families forced out of their homes in Sharbāt village, al-‘Āmrīyah, return to their homes.  
11. A March By (Egyptian) People Discouraging The Expulsion Of al-‘Āmirīyah’s Copts… A Delegation Of Members Of (People’s) Assembly And (Human Rights) Activists Are To Meet With Al-Katātnī
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2012 to Tuesday, March 27, 2018
“The Maspero Youth Union (MYU) and other political movements started a march on Sunday (February 12) from ‘Abd al-Mun’im Riyād to the People’s Assembly to support MPs raising the issue of the Copts of al-‘Āmirīyah, Alexandria, who were forced to leave their dwelling places last week over a...
60. AWR Daily Overview, May 19, 2012: Bīshūy’s remarks set church on fire
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2012
Dozens of Coptic women gathered outside the St. Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah on Friday (May 18) to protest statements by Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, in which he called on Christian women to observe modest clothing and “follow in the...
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