Date of source: Friday, September 25, 2020
The discussion at the CAWU seminar led to numerous comments about the contribution of former European Parliament member Bas Belder since he had based his paper on controversial Coptic political activist sources in the USA and Europe which are mostly not in line with that of church leaders and...
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The paper aims at presenting the religious education at the German School in Cairo (DEO) as one of the very few examples of schools offering interreligious education in Egypt. In order to give the cooperative religious education at DEO a fair examination,
Date of source: Friday, August 12, 2022
The September 2020 Webinar “Comparing inclusive Citizenship in Egypt with Europe,” led to a discussion about the so-called Covenant of ʿUmar, also known as the Capitulations of ʿUmar, a 9th-century document prohibiting church building, the rebuilding of destroyed churches, and displaying a cross on...
Date of source: Monday, November 7, 2022
In email correspondence. Imām Fāḍl Sulaymān responded to our earlier discussion about the Covenant of ʿUmar, also known as the Capitulations of ʿUmar since I was working on a paper on my correspondence with late Dutch scholar Dr. Hans Jansen (1942-2015). Jansen argued that the code of ‘Umar and...
Date of source: Thursday, October 20, 2022
The Vatican and Bahraini authorities are expecting about 28,000 people to participate in the public mass, which will be presided over by Pope Francis, on the morning of Saturday November 4, 2022. The mass is part of the historic Papal visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, from the 3rd to the 6th of...
Date of source: Monday, October 3, 2022
The “Damanhour Shubra Official Language School” separated 50 Christian students in fourth grade and placed them in a single class apart from their Muslim colleagues, in Shubrā al-Khayma, al-Qalyūbiyya. The situation came to light after a list of these 50 Christian students was circulated.
Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2022
Not a year passes without the Coptic Church announcing that a fire has broken out in one of its churches due to a short circuit, followed by the expression: “without loss of life”. These repeated fires, although limited, have seldom drawn anyone’s attention to the lack of emergency systems in...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Cornelis Hulsman is from a conservative Christian Reformed family in the Netherlands but developed a fascination for the Coptic Orthodox Church. He became a member in 1985. Many stories of Christian persecution in Muslim countries come from the Dutch Christian organization Open Doors, which has an...
Date of source: Thursday, July 28, 2022
Dr. Mabrūk ʿAṭiya, professor of Islamic Sharia at al-Azhar University, is again raising controversy because of his statements about Jesus Christ, which some considered as mockery of Jesus.
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2022
The issue of “modesty in church” has raised a lot of controversy in the Coptic community, especially during the wedding season that starts right after Christmas. The instructions of the bishops are renewed annually for the so-called “adjustment of clothing for attending weddings and church events”.