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Dr. Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salām, a representative of the Azhar on the constitution-drafting panel, said the Azhar demands keeping the text of Article II as mentioned in the 1971 intact, which is advocated by the representatives of the three churches.  
Monk Basilius al- Maqqāry, one of the most popular disciples of Fr. Matta al- Miskīn, stated that the alter lottery through which the Pope was selected does not exist in the laws of the Church. [Father Basilius earlier told Cornelis Hulsman of Arab-West Report that he had given an interview to al-...
Jirjis Fikrī, in an opinion piece in al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, said that Copts have been living in their ghetto for 30 years for many reasons. However, these reasons lead to one result which is that the church developed an administrative hierarchy similar to that of the state! For instance, the church...
Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd reports that several Coptic organizations, movements, and personalities have announced the foundation of the Coptic Advisory Council in order to unite Copts and face the difficulties of the political transition in Egypt, especially with regard to the recent wave of Islamist...
Egypt's Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) has convened a meeting with the EU Commission, that has announced earlier that it will not monitor the elections planned to take place on May 26 and 27 2014. 
Ahmad al-Sa’dāwī reports Hānī Kamīl from the voter registration committee for the Papal elections as saying that the committee had received appeals against 25 voters. The total number of registered voters is 2,500.  
An unknown assailant detonated a handmade bomb near an electoral conference [a conference held in support of a particular candidate usually in a large tent in the street ] supporting al- Sīsī in ‘Izbit al- Nakhl, Giza [a lower class area in greater Cairo].
On Friday (August 18), Major General Usāmah Al-Saghīr, First Assistant of the Interior Ministry for Security in Cairo, welcomed an ecclesiastical delegation to his office, which was headed by the General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Yu’annis
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church on Thursday (August 16) announced the death of Abune Paulos at a hospital in Addis Ababa after suffering a heart attack. He was 76.
Meanwhile, Archpriest Frances Farīd of the Beni Suef parish said President Muhammad Mursī’s decisions to retire Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī and cancel the complementary constitutional declaration ended the military’s grip over power but were taken in the wrong time.

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