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The Elections of Congregational Council of the Coptic Orthodox Church [al-Majlis al-Millī]
Date of source: 9 Oct 2018
By Māryān Rasmī, Monika Jirjis‎
While it currently has no actual powers or responsibilities, the Council has historically been responsible for the administrative and non-religious aspects of the Church.  The Council traditionally monitors Church funds and functions as the Personal Status court for the Copts, regulating marriage,...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Egyptian Council of Churches Celebrates its Fifth Anniversary
Date of source: 9 Oct 2018
By Monika Jirjis and Teresa Shinūda‎
The idea for the establishment of the Egyptian Council of Churches (ECC) was that of Pope Shinūda III.  The Council brings together five Egyptian churches representing various denominations, namely the Coptic Orthodox, Evangelical, Episcopal, Greek Orthodox, and Coptic Catholic. [Monika Jirjis and...
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Translator Hilary Ayer
Israel responds To Egypt’s Request to Renovate the Dayr al-Sulṭān Monastery
Date of source: 9 Oct 2018
By ʿArafa al-Bindārī
The Israeli website Kikar HaShabbat said that the Interior Minister Aryeh Deri monitored and handed over the budget to the municipality after receiving a request from the Egyptian ambassador to Tel Aviv. The website pointed out that Deri was supported by some members of the Israeli right despite...
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Translator Hilary Ayer
“Coptic Mawlids”: A new study of popular beliefs from the General Egyptian Book Organization
Date of source: 10 Oct 2018
By Shaymā' 'Ādil
The book deals with the study of Coptic celebratory forms and practices through the collection, classification, and analysis of the customs, traditions, and practices associated with Coptic celebrations in their cultural and social context.  The study tracks changes that have occurred in an attempt...
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Translator Hilary Ayer
Khulʿ: The Backdoor Canonical Divorce in case of Abandonment
Date of source: 10 Oct 2018
By Teresa Shinūda
According to Church sources, the clerical councils in various governorates of Egypt are currently issuing defining decrees concerning the personal status of the Copts.  Many Copts have been granted decisions of divorce and separation according to the Holy Synod-approved 2016 regulation. The sources...
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Translator Hilary Ayer
First Scientific Forum on Sinai’s And Suez Canal Antiquities
Date of source: 10 Oct 2018
By Dīnā ʿAbd al-Khāliq‎
The Holy Family Path (taken by the Holy Family in their historic journey to escape the persecution of Herod, the governor of Jerusalem, at the beginning of the first century A.D.) The Islamic Conquest Road (taken by the captain ʿAmru bin al-ʿĀṣ and contains the first Egyptian cities to convert to...
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Translator Hilary Ayer
President of Protestant Churches of Egypt inaugurates the Evangelical Arab Church in Richmond, United States
Date of source: 24 Sep 2018
By 'Immād Khalīl
The inauguration was attended by leaders from all Arabic and American Christian churches in the city of Richmond. During his visit to the United States, Zakī met with many leaders, heads and patrons of Arabic and American Evangelical Churches, and civil society organizations. [ʿImmād Khalīl, al-...
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Translator Hilary Ayer
The period for status regularization has expired…What will the Pope do with the disobedient monasteries?
Date of source: 25 Sep 2018
By No Author Mentioned
The following are the monasteries that are not recognized by the Coptic Orthodox Church: 1) St. John the Beloved Patmos Monastery in Pennsylvania, USA ; 2) St. Makāriyyūs Monastery (also known as the Carved Monastery) in Wādī al-Rayān; 3) St. Kārās Monastery in Wādī al-Naṭrūn; 4) St. Emmanuel [...
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Translator Hilary Ayer
The Pope to the priests: “Your black robe does not protect you.” “The people’s love of the Lord is anemic.”
Date of source: 25 Sep 2018
By Muṣṭafā Raḥūma (Mostafa Rahouma)
The Pope delivered a speech during the meeting entitled "Kārizān bi-Malakūt Allah (Announcing  the Kingdom of God,)" in which he pointed out that the priests are the ones who raise the children and bring up the youth.  He said: "Some of these children choose to be consecrated in one way or another...
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Translator Hilary Ayer
Kamāl Shātīlā: “We were raised on Nāṣir’s principles and his death was a catastrophic blow.”
Date of source: 28 Sep 2018
By Imām Ahmad
Shātīlā added that fanatic opposition to the idea of Arabism and brutal attempts of capitalism in the Arab world failed to present themselves as an alternative to the Nāṣir ’s principles. He claimed that the idea of Arab unity must be revived in order to combat the various conflicts within the...
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Translator Hilary Ayer
The False Islamic Awakening
Date of source: 30 Sep 2018
By Aḥmad ʿUmar
It is an odd phenomenon that the Islamists introduced the phrase “Islamic awakening” into their literature in the 1970s, as though Egyptian Muslims were slumbering cavemen until the Islamists came and brought about a change.  This change is exaggerated due to the interests of these Islamist groups...
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Translator Hilary Ayer
Video... Kamāl Zākhir: Copts are peaceful and do not assault anyone and the problem of the law of churches is because of the clerks
Date of source: 19 Sep 2018
By Naʿīm Yūsuf
The special nature of Minya Isḥāq Ibrāhīm, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and freedoms, believes that Minya has a special nature, and there are reasons related to being a governorate of Upper Egypt and other reasons related to the governorate itself. He also stressed on...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
A week into Pope Tawāḍrūs's pastoral visit to US
Date of source: 19 Sep 2018
By Muṣṭafā Raḥūma (Mostafa Rahouma)
Pope Tawāḍrūs II arrived at JFK Airport in New York with Anba David Bishop of New York & New England. The pope was received by Egypt’s Ambassador to the US, Yāsir Riḍā; Egypt’s Consul-General in New York Hishām al-Naqīb; and high-ranking Egyptian officials in New York; also Anba Serapion [...
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Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Minya's Prosecutor Extends the Detention of 19 Accused of Rioting and Assaulting Copts of "Dimshāw"
Date of source: 4 Sep 2018
By Teresa Kamāl (Theresa Kamal)
A number of residents of the village of Dimshāw Hāshim gathered after Friday prayers to protest the prayer in a church-affiliated building. Four Coptic houses were raided and looted; two Copts and one of the firefighters were injured. Police arrested 38 suspects following the events. [Teresa Kamāl...
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Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
"Wāḥid Tūt ".. Symposium in Miṣr Public Library as Celebration of the Start of the Coptic Year
Date of source: 15 Sep 2018
By No Author Mentioned
Dr. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Rīhān, general director of archaeological studies, researches, and scientific publications at the ministry of antiquities, and the media information coordinator, said in a statement, today, that 20 artists are participating in the exhibition for the first time. The event will also...
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Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
A Note by Archbishop Makāriyyūs to the President: We trust in your wisdom to solve the crisis of the Copts in Minya
Date of source: 17 Sep 2018
By Monika Jirjis and Teresa Shinūda‎
In the same context, the Public Prosecutor's Office in Minya extended the detention of 19 suspects for 15 days in the investigation of the events of sabotage and robbery, which was attended by a number of Copts of the village of Dimshāw Hāshim, last August, after Friday prayers on the pretext of...
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Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Common Date of Easter for All Christians
Date of source: 18 Sep 2018
By 'Immād Khalīl
"We are trying to unify the Easter holiday because we are in the East, and every four years the date of the feast coincides with the Western Church automatically. We proposed that the unified date be on the third Sunday of April, and there are voices that think it should be on the second Sunday,...
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Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Pope Tawāḍrūs II: "I do not prepare for the President's visit to New York"
Date of source: 18 Sep 2018
By Monika Jirjis and Teresa Shinūda‎
Coptic associations in New York and a number of other nearby states have called for the reception of the president, pledging ways to transport them from their states to the headquarters of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Bishop Yūnis, Bishop of Asyut, has traveled to the United States...
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Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Pope Tawāḍrūs II: The problem of Minya is existing in only two villages in a large governorate, and not everything that is published is true
Date of source: 18 Sep 2018
By No Author Mentioned
The Pope considered that participating in the reception of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī is a kind of fulfillment of a national duty, adding that our participation is reflected positively on Egypt in general.  In response to a question about the Minya crisis, Pope Tawāḍrūs II said: "We have 27...
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Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Adrift on the Nile: What President ʿAbd Al-Nāṣir Think of this Novel?
Date of source: 10 Jul 2018
By Ihāb Muḥammad
Because of directing explicit criticisms to the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the novel aroused much anger among the members of the Revolutionary Command Council. But the actor Aḥmad Maẓhar interfered and called Sāmī Sharaf asking him to explain the situation to the president Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣir....
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ

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