Date of source: Monday, January 14, 2013
A meeting of the General Coptic Organization Authority (CGA) (that was held few days ago in one of Cairo’s hotels) was harshly interrupted by Coptic activists.
According to Hanī Ramsīs, coordinator of Maspero Coptic Youth Union (MCYU), CGA members do not represent the issue of Christians since they...
Date of source: Monday, January 14, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II received yesterday, January 13, the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy of Belgium. Mr. van Rompuy’s two-day visit to Egypt includes meetings with President Muhammad Mursī and the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb. A church source...
Date of source: Monday, January 7, 2013
Rose al-Yūsuf reports on the same news under the title, “President Mursī defies the Salafist fatwá and congratulates Egyptian Christians on Christmas” (Mīrā Mamdūh, Rose al-Yūsuf, Jan.7, p. 1). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Saturday, January 5, 2013
Pope Tawadros II called on all Coptic Christians to attend mass this Christmas, stressing that the anniversary of the attacks against Copts on this holiday should not prevent Copts from expressing joy during the festive season. Due to Egypt’s political turmoil and the recent approval of the country...
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2012
British political writer and professor of European studies at Oxford Timothy Garton Ash criticized the paper issued by the Azhar on the future of Egypt, saying that the document is ignoring the religions of half inhabitants of the globe, like Hinduism, Buddhism and Scientology. [Wafā' Shi'īrah, ...
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2012
A prominent security source revealed that the national security agency will establish a new department to watch Muslim and Christian religious leaders and their activities and funding in addition to web sites and newspapers.
The step aims to spot any hard-line approaches or calls for violence or...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
“This compromise would settle the differences between the camp that seeks changing the Egyptian nation’s Islamic identity by just stopping at sheer general principles and the camp that seeks including the rulings of the Sharī’ah into the constitution,” said ‘Isām Dirbālah said in statements.
“The...
Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2012
Amidst a deafening media commotion on the unprecedented influx by Egyptian Orthodox Christians into the holy sites in occupied Jerusalem and Bethlehem, two viewpoints have emerged.
One camp says those visits amount to be normalization with the Israelis and that they break the barriers of an...
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
During the first weekly sermon, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II called for an end to violence and prayed for peace and stability in Egypt. Additionally, Pope Tawadros II explained he would meet the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar the following day (Sunday, February 3, 2013) in order to sign the document...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Bank officials denounced claims that accuse Egyptian Christians of withdrawing their deposit funds from Egyptian banks in an alleged attempt to destabilize the state. Former governor of Egypt’s Central Bank and director of Misr-Iran Bank Ismā’īl Hasan said that such claims against Christians are...