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Conclusion of the international conference "Alexandria and the West: Church History and Geography"
Date of source: 28 Apr 2026
By Monica Jirjis
The International Conference "Alexandria and the West: Church History and Geography," which took place between 24 and 26 April 2026 in the conference hall of the Patriarchal Library, was concluded successfully in Alexandria. In the presence of Theodore II, the Patriarch of Alexandria and the Rest...
Reviewed by Margarita Louisa Yanez
Translator Margarita Louisa Yanez
First governmental steps regarding the new personal status law after presidential directives
Date of source: 16 Apr 2026
By Ibrāhīm al-Ṭayyib
Prime Minister Muṣṭafa Madbūlī held a meeting on Thursday (April 16) to follow up on draft laws regulating personal status affairs for both Muslims and Christians, as well as the draft law on the Family Support Fund. Madbūlī highlighted directives from President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī to accelerate...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Coptic Catholic prelate warns: Personal status law for Christians to be issued exclusively by the Church
Date of source: 20 Apr 2026
By No Author Mentioned
Bishop Bākhūm, the Patriarchal Auxiliary for Catholic Patriarchal Diocese Affairs, affirmed that statements regarding the Personal Status Law for Christians will only be issued through newspapers and media outlets accredited by the Church. "The Catholic Church participated in the committee drafting...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Second marriage in Christianity—a decisive Church decision following a court verdict
Date of source: 15 Apr 2026
By Muḥammad al-Aḥmadī
Yūsuf Ṭalʿat, the legal advisor to the Coptic Evangelical Church, said the draft Personal Status Law for Christians has set precise conditions for conducting a second marriage, considering it to be one of the most sensitive issues within the church community. "Obtaining a divorce ruling allows one...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Grand Imām of Al-Azhar names new undersecretaries
Date of source: 19 Apr 2026
By Muṣṭafā Jamāl
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, issued a decision assigning Shaykh Ayman ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Head of al-Azhar Institutes Sector, to manage the financial and administrative tasks of al-Azhar undersecretary, pending the appointment of a new one in accordance with the procedures specified...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
The National Council for Human Rights expresses support for cooperation with al-Azhar
Date of source: 16 Apr 2026
By Minatullah Ḥamdī
Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, received Īhāb Jamāl al-Dīn, Chairman of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), to exchange views and possible ways of cooperation between the two sides. Jamāl al-Dīn highlighted the "important" role played by al-Azhar in spreading the values ​​of...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Grand Muftī of Egypt: Islamic Sharīʿa provides safeguards to protect families from collapse
Date of source: 18 Apr 2026
By Amīra al-ʿAnānī
The Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Naẓīr Muḥammad ʿAyyād, stressed that family stability brings righteous individuals who protect their homeland, while its disintegration brings manifestations of deviance and disorder. He clarified that Islamic Sharīʿa has taken into account the building of the family...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
New personal status law for Christians: The main points
Date of source: 24 Apr 2026
By Muḥammad al-Aḥmadī
In one of the most important legislative steps in modern Egyptian history, the Christian community, in all its denominations, stands on the threshold of a new legal era with the completion of all features of the "Unified Personal Status Law for Christians." This draft law, which represents the...
Reviewed by Phoebe Lewis
Translator Phoebe Lewis
Popes in mosques: Faith diplomacy between dialogue and controversy
Date of source: 19 Apr 2026
By Rīm Mukhtār
For more than 25 years, papal visits to Islamic mosques have become a recurring feature of official tours, sending a clear message reflecting the Catholic Church's openness to interfaith dialogue. The papal tradition began historically with Pope John Paul II, who in 2001 entered the Umayyad Mosque ...
Reviewed by Bas Breet
Translator Bas Breet
Ṭāriq al-Muḥammadī: NFP dialogue over personal status law is a "decisive" step
Date of source: 19 Apr 2026
By Heshām ʿAbd al-Jalīl
Ṭāriq al-Muḥammadī, Deputy Chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, said the National Front Party (NFP)’s initiative to launch a societal dialogue on the draft law on personal status affairs represents a "serious and important" step towards reforming one of the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī

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Coptic Population Figures in English Print Media
Date of Publication: Sunday, March 11, 2012
By: Jenna Ferrecchia
The majority of articles containing Coptic population figures were not published in several major English-language newspapers until after 1956. Articles in newspapers such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Toronto Star illustrate the varying tendencies of journalists in their presentation of figures.  In comparison to the CAPMAS
Words and Reality - Governmental Implementation of the Egyptian Constitution 1981-2011 and the Potential of a New Nationalism to Emerge as a Basis for Constitutional Commitment
Date of Publication: Monday, December 19, 2011
By: André Weißenfels
It is the time before the presidential elections. Egypt is in the middle of a possible transitional period and a mostly transitional mood. Since I arrived in Cairo in October 2011, people were highly politicized (which does not mean full of revolutionary thoughts) and most of them still are. It was then that I heard for the first time the
Dr. Rafīq Samuel Habīb: A Coptic Intellectual on Current Issues in Egyptian Political and Social Matters
Date of Publication: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
By: Sayyidah Fūʾād
Earlier this year, Egyptian Coptic intellectual Dr. Rafīq Samuel Habīb was named as the vice president of Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party -the newly founded political party of the Muslim Brotherhood. Already one of the most controversial figures in Egyptian society, Habīb's appointment as the deputy leader of Egypt's nascent Islamist party
Analyzing Video Evidence from Maspero: Bloody Confrontations following the Coptic Protest of October 9, 2011
Date of Publication: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
By: Jayson Casper
October 9 witnessed riots in Cairo that led to the death of at least twenty-seven people and the injury of over 300, mostly from Egypt’s Coptic Christian community. The conflict followed a peaceful march from the neighborhood of Shubra, with its high percentage of Coptic residents, to the Radio and TV Building in Maspero, which has become the
What Happened in Mārīnāb Village?
Date of Publication: Saturday, October 22, 2011
By: Lamīs Yahyá
This report provides critical background and previously unpublished details on the events leading up to the protests by Copts in Maspero, Cairo on October 9, 2011, which ended fatally for more than 20 protesters and injured over 100 others.  It provides interviews, photographs, videos, and documents, as evidence of the circumstances in the village
Coptic Orthodox Migration and Statistics: Shubra al-Khayma
Date of Publication: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
By: Christopher D. Marshall
Christopher D. Marshall spent one month in the Bishopric of Shubra al-Khayma, a suburb of Cairo, to gather information about Coptic Orthodox migration.  With him he brought a series of interview questions with which he hoped would uncover the methods of data collection used in the Shubra al-Khayma.  Bishop Marcos designated Father Youssef as
Coptic Orthodox statistics and migration in Maghāghah
Date of Publication: Monday, August 29, 2011
By: Elizabeth Edwards
  Review of Elizabeth Edward’s “Coptic Orthodox statistics and migration in Maghagha” This work builds upon the report "Report on church response to poverty in Egypt" and delves into the issue of poverty and migration. What number of  the poor are bishops responsible to provide care for?  The basis of the report comes from field work in Maghāghah
Blessed Are They Who Are Persecuted for Theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven - Religious Resistance among Coptic Christians in Egypt (Bachelor Thesis)
Date of Publication: Monday, May 23, 2011
By: Sanne Lundberg
Sanne Lundberg’s thesis was about the strong Coptic Christian perception of being discriminated, the interplay of this belief with religious beliefs, as well as their response to the perceived discriminating social system in Egypt. This research was thus not an investigation about whether these perceptions are correct or not but about perceptions
Egyptian Demonstrations and the Muslim Brotherhood
Date of Publication: Thursday, February 10, 2011
By: Jayson Casper
According to the Pew Research Center, US media attention for the Egyptian protests has exceeded every foreign policy story over the last four years, commanding 56% of all news coverage. While initially surprising, upon reflection this story hits at the conjunction of many popular flashpoints: Israel, Islam, and popular democratic movements. It
The context of the brutal attack on a Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria on January 1, 2011
Date of Publication: Thursday, February 10, 2011
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
  The attack on worshippers in an Alexandria church in Egypt on January 1, 2011 marks a lowpoint in relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. Never before in modern Egyptian history have extremists tried to kill as many worshippers as possible in a suicide attack. Earlier clashes were often related to extreme responses to local tensions

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What Next for Egypt?
Date of source: Thursday, February 20, 2014
By: Brookings Institution
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Egypt's dwindling Jewish community buries deputy leader
Date of source: Tuesday, March 11, 2014
By: Haaretz
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By The Associated Press| Mar. 11, 2014 | 6:40 PM The deputy head of Egypt's dwindling Jewish community was buried Tuesday in a ceremony led by her sister.
The Sisi Shuffle
Date of source: Monday, February 24, 2014
By: Middle East Research and Information Project
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by Joshua Stacher | published February 24, 2014 - 5:21pm
Egyptian TV airs arrest of Al Jazeera reporters
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2014
By: Washington Post
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This video, aired by Egypt's al-Tahrir, shows two journalists with Al Jazeera English.
Egyptian authorities detain thousands in crackdown on dissent
Date of source: Monday, March 10, 2014
By: Washington Post
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The growing number of people held by Egyptian authorities as part of a frenzied campaign to crush opposition to the military-backed government has squeezed the country’s already broken criminal justice system, leading to widespread legal and human rights abuses by security forces, prosecutors and
Gunmen Kill Egypt Policeman as 1 Killed in Protest
Date of source: Sunday, March 9, 2014
By: ABC News
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Gunmen killed a police officer Friday in northern Egypt who worked as a guard for a judge hearing a case against the country's ousted president as his supporters held scattered demonstrations that saw one person killed, authorities said.
Coptic woman politician succeed ElBaradei as president of Constitution Party
Date of source: Saturday, February 22, 2014
By: Middle East Online
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Election of first female as head of political party in Egypt brings flicker of hope for women across country. CAIRO – The election of the first female as a head of a political party in Egypt brought a flicker of hope for women across the country on Friday.
Al-Azhar, Coptic church condemn murder of 7 Egyptian Copts in Libya
Date of source: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
By: Daily News Egypt
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Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church Tuesday condemned the recent killing of seven Egyptian Copts in Western Libya, with the church calling for a hasty arrest of the “terrorists” responsible.
Four reasons for throwing down a gauntlet to El Sisi
Date of source: Thursday, February 27, 2014
By: openDemocracy
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Mina Fayek [1] 27 February 2014
'Bearded Men' Stab Christian Woman
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2013
By: Jihad Watch
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Random attacks on Egypt's Christian Copts continue growing, including with very little motive -- other than hate, that is.

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