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[The text was written as a chapter for Freedom of Belief and Christian Mission, Edited by Hans Aage Gravaas, Christof Sauer, Tormod Engelsviken, Maqsood Kamil and Knud Jørgensen. Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series, Vol.
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2024
Following a three-day meeting, a group of bishops and archbishops who had split from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church formed the “Tigray Orthodox Tewahedo Church Synod,” an ethnic and regional synod, based on a recently produced “Church canon.”
Date of source: Monday, December 5, 2022
The current leadership of the Coptic Church has a multifaceted reform agenda, both internally in regards to education, monks, rituals and administration, and externally, in regards to opening up dialogues with Western churches confidently and making continuous attempts at rapprochement. This reform...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2021
The mass of the tenth anniversary of the Martyrs of Maspero will be held next Friday, 8th October, at the Church of the Archangel Michael and the Martyrs of Maspero in 6th October city, Giza.
Coptic Victims Association: “Family Law is an Unprecedented Move to Solve Christian Family Problems”
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2021
The Coptic movements concerned with divorce and second marriage hailed the completion of the family draft law for Christians, prepared by Egyptian churches and the government. They considered it a breakthrough in solving problems of thousands of Copts affected by personal status issues, due to the...
Date of source: Friday, May 28, 2021
Forty-one years have passed since the founding of the youth bishopric in the 1970s. As Islamist currents of thought became more mainstream in Egyptian society, Pope Shinūda III had become concerned about the future of Christian youth. For him, the youth bishopric was a way to hand down Coptic...
Date of source: Thursday, September 19, 2019
A number of diaspora Copts in the United States of America, as well as the Egyptian Society for All Egyptians announced their readiness to receive President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī next week during his visit to New York for meetings of the United Nations General Assembly.
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2019
The Coptic Orthodox Church Official Spokesman Būlus Halīm stated that the registration procedures of three new churches in Indonesia are currently underway, bringing the number of Coptic Orthodox churches in there to five.
Date of source: Saturday, September 29, 2012
For the past 40 years, the church has been Copts’ sole refuge and Pope Shenouda III has been a religious leader and political intellectual thinking for all the congregation that the Christians have come down to only one person, the late patriarch.
Date of source: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Meanwhile, Nādir al-Sirafī, the official spokesman of the 1938 Copts League, which advocates divorce and remarriage in Christianity, threatened to challenge the unconstitutionality of an article proposed by the church in the constitution that reads “non-Muslims may have recourse to their own...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.