Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah and chairman of the committee on registration of voters of a new patriarch, said he will meet with Bishop Pachomius on Thursday (May 10) to determine standards on voters from parishes abroad after a decision by the Holy Synod to allow them to cast their votes. [‘...
Date of source: Friday, January 4, 2013
Nādir noted that Coptic Orthodox Bishop Raphael, general secretary of the Holy Synod, will lead the Christmas Mass in Alexandria. Among the high-ranking officials who are expected to extend their congratulations on the occasion is the governor of Alexandria Muhammad ’Atá 'Abbās and the State...
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2012
The Alexandria urgent matters court (First Circle) has adjourned the case of the Two Saints Church, filed by the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral and the families of martyrs and wounded persons, to the April 8 session upon the request of the church lawyer in light of the death of Pope Shenouda. [Rajab...
Date of source: Friday, April 27, 2012
“We want the constitutional assembly be representative of all segments of the Egyptian people. Copts have demands they want be clearly spelled out in the constitution, including a text confirming the civil nature of the state that would guarantee everyone the right of belief and free practice of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox Church, in the statement, called on SCAF Chairman Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī to approve a constitution panel that is representative of all Egyptians without discrimination among the citizens of Egypt on religious or ethnic basis. [Rajab Ramadān, Muhammad Abū al-‘...
Date of source: Saturday, July 27, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II said that the Coptic Orthodox Church supports all the security measures to protect Egypt and added in a tweet: “the national responsibility of the Coptic church calls us to support all measures to protect our country and realize our freedom without violence for...
Date of source: Saturday, July 27, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II said that the Coptic Orthodox Church supports all the security measures to protect Egypt and added in a tweet: “the national responsibility of the Coptic church calls us to support all measures to protect our country and realize our freedom without violence for...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Ahmad Al-Tayyīb, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, began his retreat from public life at his house in Luxor, protesting the forms of violence erupted at the Presidential Palace. Al-Tayyīb left the Mashyakhat al-Azhar (Azhar’s headquarters) heading toward Luxor, as he had announced in his initiative for...
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2013
Karīm Kamāl, president of the union, stated that the recent violence, unprecedented in the Egyptian society, has jeopardized media outlets when the perpetrators blocked the Production Media City and blocked the judges from accessing the Supreme Constitutional Court. The latest curfew imposed on the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Holy Synod, Bishop Raphael, said in a statement delivered to al-Misrī al-Yawm, after Christmas mass in the Coptic Church in Alexandria last Monday, that Pope Tawadros II will maintain the policy of his predecessors late Pope Shenouda and before him Pope Kyrillos of...