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The Dahshūr unrest entered a new juncture on Friday (Aug. 3) after dozens of local Copts and several Coptic movements protested outside the St. Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah to reject the forced displacement of 120 Christian families. Giza Governor Dr. ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Rahman,...
The Egypt Copts Coalition organized protests outside the Giza Security Department to condemn sectarian displacement of Copts and plundering and burning of their houses and property in Dahshūr. Some 100 local residents of Dahshūr as well as members of the Free Maspero Copts Movement, Egyptian Coptic...
Political parties and movements denounced the “deplorable” unrest between Muslims and Christians in Dahshūr and called for forming a fact-finding commission and working on brining the displaced Coptic families back to their homes in the impoverished area. Dr. Muhammad al-Barād’ī, a representative...
The Shūrá Council, the upper house of the Egyptian two-chamber parliament, will set up an eight-member commission to start conciliatory efforts in Dahshūr. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, Aug. 4, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
Christian advocacy groups called for protests outside the presidential palace to urge President Muhammad Mursī to put an end to the suffering of Christians in restive Dahshūr while other Christians gathered outside the Giza Security Department to protest the forced displacement of Christians in the...
Several intellectuals and politicians, during the time of the former president, Husnī Mubārak, who exclusively confined Coptic issues between the church leaders and the presidential institution, for bringing the Coptic dossier out of the security apparatus' control. Ramsīs al-Najjār, a Coptic...
Firebrand preacher Wajdī Ghunaym lashed out at the opponents of President Muhammad Mursī, dubbing them as "rats and cockroaches that live in infamy and dirt". "Those who are called the elite are nothing but like barking dogs and know nothing about democracy or that parties may be legitimately...
The Coptic Orthodox Church's Holy Synod met under acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius on Wednesday (July 4) to exchange views about the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt. Several Synod members expressed concern because "current members of the committees in the constitution-...
Meanwhile, a deadline for the voter registration committee on papal election in the Coptic Orthodox Church expires on Tuesday (July 10) as the final lists will be handed over to acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-Wafd, July 8, p. 3] Read text in Arabic
Acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius said on Saturday (July 7) that the church is still concerned over the activities of the constituent assembly and fears that an Egyptian constitution expressive only of a certain group or another with no regard to the rest of the people would be issued. Bishop...

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