Date of source: Monday, January 7, 2013
In an interview with al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, the preacher of al-Qāꞌid Ibrāhīm Mosque of Alexandria, Shaykh Ahmad al-Mahallāwī, said that “extending congratulatory messages to Christians is permissible only with the intention of hidāyah (guidance to the straight path of Islam); however congratulating...
Date of source: Thursday, April 5, 2012
Meanwhile, Coptic figures welcomed the Coptic Orthodox Church’s withdrawal from the constitution-drafting assembly and called for real representation of all segments of the society.
They said that the church’s decision, taken after a meeting of the Holy Synod, which endorsed the recommendations of...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Meanwhile, the government turned down the draft law forwarded by Coptic lawmaker ‘Ihāb ‘Ādil Ramzī on the enactment of a unified law for the construction of houses of worship.
Assistant Minister of Justice Counselor ‘Umar al-Sharīf and representative of the ministry of awqāf (endowments) Jamāl...
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2012
Presidential candidate Hamdīn Sabbāhī announced that he stopped all activities for his campaign in mourning over Pope Shenouda, offering “sincerest condolences” to Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt and the world at large over their “national and spiritual loss”.
Presidential hopeful ‘Amr Mūsá, in...
Date of source: Sunday, March 18, 2012
“Non-Muslims are free to their own faiths and we have to offer them amity and peace if they do not fight us,” said ‘Awwā during a rally next to the al-Fayoum cultural center on Friday (March 16), adding only true believers (Muslims) will apply the Islamic sharī’ah and be fair between Muslims and...
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2012
Presidential candidate Hamdīn Sabbāhī announced that he stopped all activities for his campaign in mourning over Pope Shenouda, offering “sincerest condolences” to Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt and the world at large over their “national and spiritual loss”.
Presidential hopeful ‘Amr Mūsá, in...
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2012
Presidential candidate Hamdīn Sabbāhī announced that he stopped all activities for his campaign in mourning over Pope Shenouda, offering “sincerest condolences” to Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt and the world at large over their “national and spiritual loss”.
Presidential hopeful ‘Amr Mūsá, in...
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2012
The announcement of the death of Pope Shenouda has had an effect on relations between Muslims and Copts, who are always united in hard times as a Muslim family in Maghāghah, that had a long feud with a Coptic family in Shārūnah village, embarked in a good gesture on terminating the dispute that...
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2012
Several parties and political movements expressed deep grief over the death of Pope Shenouda, including al-Wafd Party that voiced mourning in a statement to the Egyptian people – Muslims and Christians – over the departure of “a patriotic leader that was always interested in Egypt and its national...
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2012
Presidential candidate Hamdīn Sabbāhī announced that he stopped all activities for his campaign in mourning over Pope Shenouda, offering “sincerest condolences” to Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt and the world at large over their “national and spiritual loss”.
Presidential hopeful ‘Amr Mūsá, in...