Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2018
On behalf of the Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church of Egypt, the Apostolic Administrator of Giza [al-Jīzah], Beni Suef [Banī Suwayf], and Fayoum [al-Fayūm], Bishop Toma Adly Zaki [Tūmā ʿAdlī Zakī] received the EU Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion and beliefs, Ján Figeľ....
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2015
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, arrived in Cairo yesterday as the head of a delegation from London for a two-day visit. It is his second visit to Egypt since his inauguration in March 2013. He met Pope Tawadros II and high ranking officials from al-Azhar and other institutions. Sources...
Date of source: Saturday, September 6, 2014
Pope Tawadros II arrived in Toronto Airport, Canada.
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2018
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, met with the President of Italy Sergio Mattarella on Monday at the Republican Palace in Rome, discussing various topics related to Christianity in Egypt, such as the prominent role the Coptic Orthodox Church and al-Azhar...
Date of source: Friday, February 7, 2014
The Vatican responded angrily to the UN yesterday, after the latter accused it of covering up crimes of child abuse by priests and requested it to change its position on abortion and homo-sexuality. It accused the Committee for Children’s Rights of the UN of intentionally misinterpreting the facts...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2018
President al-Sīsī met today with His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, accompanied by a delegation from the First International Forum of Coptic Church Youth.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
The UN Human Rights committee is denouncing attacks committed against children by clergy of the Catholic Church (the Vatican). It denounced the policies that, according to the statement, allowed priests to rape hundreds of thousand children and to sexually harass them. It called for revealing the...
Date of source: Monday, November 19, 2018
On October 6, 2016, Arie de Boer, Koen Vliegenthart and Cornelis Hulsman visited two sites that were World Servants projects in the period of 2006 until 2009. The delegation was received by Father Rueiss [Ruways], and briefly met with Bishop Gabriel [Jibrāʾīl] when he left the church after a prayer...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Cornelis Hulsman was impressed by two articles of Maged Atiya [Mājid ʿAṭiyya], a Coptic Orthodox American who was born and raised in Egypt before migrating to the USA. Maged Atiya writes about the impact of Coptic migrants to the USA on Egypt. They remained politically involved but often with an...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 24, 2017
As a follow-up to my interview with a Cairene Protestant pastor, I asked Cornelis Hulsman, Editor-in-Chief of Arab-West Report, for an interview on pious fraud. “I first learned about the term Pious Fraud from my long-time friend Dr. Otto Meinardus, German scholar and former pastor of the Maadi...