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Date of source: Sunday, April 29, 2012
A member in the 18-man committee supervising the papal elections revealed that Bishop Pachomius alone would decide on the names of the seven candidates for the pope position, if a large number of bishops and monks applied, in accordance with the 1957 statute that stipulates candidates must not be...
Date of source: Sunday, April 29, 2012
Priest Angelus, the secretary of Bishop Pachomius, denied that the interim leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church ran in the elections over the chair of St. Mark the Apostle, adding Bishop Pachomius has over and again said he would not seek any positions and only seeks the service of the church and...
Date of source: Sunday, April 29, 2012
According to the 1957 statute, May 15 will mark the 60th day the papal chair became vacant, Bishop Abrām told al-Ahrām in a meeting attended by Counselors Edward Ghālib and Malak Mīnā, members of the candidacy committee secretariat.
Ghālib said the mass media offers suggests incorrect names and...
Date of source: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Pope Shenouda has passed away in a very critical political juncture and amidst confusion and disputes over the political values founding the state and the constitutional system and, more seriously, amidst growing fears and misgivings over the future of Christians in Egypt and the Arab region,...
Date of source: Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Cairo Criminal Court canceled a decision barring Priest Philopater Jamīl from leaving Egypt over charges pressed against him of involvement in incitation in the October 9 incidents outside the state radio & TV building in Maspero, which left dozens killed or wounded. [Author Not Mentioned, ...
Date of source: Thursday, March 22, 2012
The behaviors of some Egyptians – Muslims and Copts – need genuine reconsideration as the Egyptians need to be convinced that establishing the pillars of a civil state is a key exit of what the nation is going through, writes ‘Abd al-Latīf al-Manāwī in an opinion article in al-Misrī al-Yawm.
The...
Date of source: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Ice was broken on Wednesday (March 21) between presidential candidate Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā and Bishop Bīshūy, the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod Secretary and a possible successor of Pope Shenouda III, when ‘Awwā visited the Saint Mark Cathedral to offer condolences over the pope....
Date of source: Sunday, March 18, 2012
“Non-Muslims are free to their own faiths and we have to offer them amity and peace if they do not fight us,” said ‘Awwā during a rally next to the al-Fayoum cultural center on Friday (March 16), adding only true believers (Muslims) will apply the Islamic sharī’ah and be fair between Muslims and...
Date of source: Saturday, April 28, 2012
The Egyptian Cultural Forum on Sunday (April 29) is holding a commemorative event on Pope Shenouda under the auspices of Dr. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Hijāzī, the former prime minister, and Ambassador Ahmad al-Ghamrāwī in association with the Egyptian League for Muslims and Copts. [Muhammad al-Manādīlī, al-...
Date of source: Saturday, April 28, 2012
The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minya under ‘Ādil Ramzī held a commemorative ceremony in tribute to Pope Shenouda on the anniversary of the 40th day of his death.
The ceremony was attended by representatives of Muslim and Christian civil society...
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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.