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Date of source: Wednesday, July 27, 2011
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A church source has claimed that Pope Shenouda III, pope of Alexandria and head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, has told Bishop Bola, chairman of the Clerical Council, to put an end to the Council's bureaucracy so the investigation of complaints against him can continue. The pope commissioned a...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Najīb Jabrā’īl, a Coptic lawyer and the head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights and Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, met on Wednesday morning to discuss the deteriorating situation of the Clerical Council, and the increasing number of cases it is receiving – in its...
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Many articles were published in
Watani, al-Ahram and al-Usboa in memoriam to Bishop Gregorios, the
General Bishop of Theological Post Graduate
Studies, Coptic Culture and Scientific Research, who passed
away last week. All the articles in the first two
papers concentrated on the personal...
Date of source: Friday, October 6, 2006
Father Mattá al- Miskīn is attacked by many conservative figures of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The text highlights some of the father’s liberal ideology concerning traditions of the Church.
Date of source: Sunday, September 30, 2001
An international festival for Coptic music and melodies, entitled "The Eternal Nile" was held in Paris. It was organized jointly by the Coptic Association in France and the Syndicate du Personnel de l’ UNESCO."
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 2003
Copts living in the Manshiyat Abdel Mona’am Riyad district in Shoubra Al-Kheima are dissatisfied as the police prevented the building of a staircase in the Anba Bula Church despite the fact that a presidential restoration decree had been issued.
Date of source: Sunday, March 31, 2002
The Coptic residents of one of Egypt´s new towns filed an application to the Minister of Housing for the allocation of land to build a church because there is no church in their town that includes six mosques. The Minister agreed and they started the procedure to obtain a permit. Then a mosque...
Date of source: Sunday, February 24, 2002
Sidhom placed the texts of some Copts who wrote him about Beni Walmis in his editorial. The writers lament the happening in Beni Walmis and point to mistakes outside the Coptic community. Mr. Guirguis Bishay Al-Shuqeiry notes the changed social climate over the past decades. Two other authors...
Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2001 to Friday, September 14, 2001
"The Other Christ" is a book by a Jewish writer, who claims that there was a Christ before Jesus Christ. The deputy Catholic Patriarch said that the book mixed religious truths with cock and bull stories to cause religious strife. A professor at the Azhar University said that the Jews...
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
The church of Anba Antonius in Munqatin, Minya, is still waiting for an official license to use their church building for worship. Coptic villagers built the church in 1991 after 13 years of failed attempts to obtain an official license to built a church in their village. Security authorities...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.