Date of source: Saturday, February 28, 2009
A Coptic teenager escaped from her family home intending to marry a 20 year old young Muslim man. Copts demonstrated angrily and the prosecution released the couple. The teenage girl is said to have been sent to a monastery in Cairo to be taken care of.
Date of source: Monday, February 23, 2009
Fathī Sa‘d used to be addressed as a doctor by the church even though he did not
finish his nursing diploma.
Date of source: Monday, February 23, 2009
The
dialogue between Father ‘Abd Al-Masīh Basīt and some Coptic lawyers after the
publication of an article that is offensive to the church and the pope.
Date of source: Monday, February 2, 2009
Jamāl al-Bannā discusses, in a symposium his perspective on different contemporary Islamic issues.
Date of source: Monday, February 2, 2009
Father ‘Abd al-Masīh Basīt of the Coptic Orthodox Church comments on last week’s article in Sawt al-Ummah on the controversial film Fitnat Muhammad [Muhammad’s Fitnah] broadcast on the Internet.
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2009
Coptic thinker Jamāl As‘ad ‘Abd al-
Malāk fiercely attacks the bishop of al-Qūsīyah for his speech at the Hudson Institute in Washington, in a letter
addressed to Pope Shenouda.
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2009
The bishop of youth, Bishop Mūsá stands in the way of Bishop
Bīshūy’s ambitions to accede to the pontifical seat.
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2009
Sawt al-Ummah publishes an old letter that
the late Bishop Gregorius sent to Bishop Bīshūy describing it as an important document that reveals the bitter
dispute between the highly respected bishop and Bishop Bīshūy.
Date of source: Sunday, January 25, 2009
Cardinal Stephanos II Ghattās, the former Patriarch of Alexandria and head of the Coptic Catholic Church, died in Cairo on January 20 at the age of 89. Official and Church characters of the different denominations in Egypt attended the funeral ceremony and offered their condolences.
Date of source: Monday, January 26, 2009
A number of critical secrets and problems related to the church were published in a Coptic publication issued a few days ago which is highly expected to cause a lot of controversies inside the church in particular and among Coptic society in general.