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Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Mikhael 'Ādīl writes about Copts' desires to visit Jerusalem, and Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III's rejection. Pope Shenouda had occasionally called on Copts not to visit Jerusalem in solidarity with Palestine and Muslims. The pope added that in Christianity there is no pilgrimage, noting that...
Date of source: Saturday, September 24, 2011
Dr. Shirīf Dūs, president of the General Coptic Association, is intending to hold talks with presidents of liberal and leftist political parties to form a coalition in the next parliament elections to compete with Islamists.
Dr. Ihāb Ramzī, lawyer and Coptic activist, is estimating that 50 Coptic...
Date of source: Thursday, September 22, 2011
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Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria met with Bishop Bishoy of Damiat in the papal headquarters after he returned from a meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for the World Council of Churches (WCC). Bishoy showed the pope a report on the development of Coptic services in Ethiopia and the...
Date of source: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Kamāl Zākhir, general coordinator of the laymen Copts movement, has stressed that his support of NGOs for Coptic second marriage and divorce does not mean that he is against the Orthodox Church. He did, however, assert that the resignations from the Coptic denomination flooding in from a huge...
Date of source: Saturday, September 17, 2011
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The Administrative Judiciary Court has refused to deal with a lawsuit surrounding Nermin Kamal, a Christian convert to Islam supposedly detained in a church building after her conversion. The case has been refused due to a lack of legal papers from a lawyer representing her husband, as he...
Date of source: Monday, September 19, 2011
Much of this week's coverage was dedicated to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister, and his visits to Egypt in which he promoted interfaith dialogue and the concept of a secular state. He met with leaders of Azhar, officials from the Coptic Church and various political representatives.
Date of source: Monday, September 19, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III decided to launch a new satellite channel that represents the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchy entitled, "Egyptian Saint Mark" or "Mar Marqūs al-Misrīyah".
Bishop Armiyā, the pope's secretary, will supervise the channel and will work to revive the Coptic culture and...
Date of source: Monday, September 19, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt has received more than 120 individual notices from Coptic Christians informing the Church that they have permanently left the denomination, according to Church sources on Sunday.
Date of source: Saturday, September 10, 2011
Dr. Fatmah Sayīd Ahmad began the interview with Major General Abū Bakr al-Jindī, President of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), by asking that all the statistics that were prohibited former regime, related to the census of Christians and Nubians in Egypt, be made...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 13, 2011
A large number of Coptic Orthodox Christians will collectively quit their denominations in writing on Thursday by offering "mass resignation applications" to the church and the justice ministry and later will have them documented at the notary public, an activist revealed.
'Azah Sulaymān, the...
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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.