Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III refused the demands presented by families of the Maspero victims to open an international investigation into the Maspero's incidents.
He empathizes with the emotions of the families, but believes that launching such an investigation is not suitable in light of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III met with Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī, the head of the Evangelical Community Council in Egypt and a number of priests from the Evangelical Church, Monseigneur Phillip Najm [the paper wrote as Nājī], leader of Egyptian Chaldean Christians, Bishop Ashot Mnatsakanyan [the...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 18, 2011
After the meeting of Usāmah Haykal, Minister of Information, with the Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III, the Minister said that an objective commission will evaluate the coverage of the Egyptian television to Maspero's incidents. The Minister offered his condolences to the Pope and said that the...
Date of source: Monday, October 17, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Aswan Statement [October 15, 2011]
A number of visual and written media recently covered the issue of Saint George's Church in Marīnāb of Idfū city in Aswan governorate inaccurately and gave wrong information, which resulted in the confusion in the opinions and emotions...
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2011
Clashes erupted between the military and the Copts during the latters' protests off the state TV building in Maspero, on October 9, 2011, leaving nearly 24 Copts dead and 212 others injured. Some reports mentioned the death of three army soldiers and 100 others injured.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Coptic Christians in Aswan on Tuesday continued their open-ended sit-in before the municipality's headquarters, demanding the building of a church in the Marinab village near the southern city of Edfu.
Clashes between Muslims and Christians erupted when the Christians tried to turn a guesthouse...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The Coptic Ortodox Church refused Coptic activists' calls to boycott the elections.
A Prominent Archbishop in the Holy Synod, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated that the church would never accept these calls.
He added that Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III's instructions with regards to...
Date of source: Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral will file new reports with Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud about investigations in the New Year's Eve Two Saints Church bombing, a church source said Wednesday.
The attack killed 23 and injured 97 Copts as they were leaving mass.
Date of source: Thursday, September 29, 2011
Modern-day Jews are not God's chosen people, said Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, in a statement Wednesday evening.
"Do not believe their claims that they are God's chosen people, because it is not true," Shenouda said during his weekly sermon on Wednesday evening at...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Mikhael 'Ādīl writes about Copts' desires to visit Jerusalem, and Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III's rejection. Pope Shenouda had occasionally called on Copts not to visit Jerusalem in solidarity with Palestine and Muslims. The pope added that in Christianity there is no pilgrimage, noting that...