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The discussion about the electoral law for the papal election in the Coptic Orthodox Church has been raging for many decades since 1957. When Pope Yusab II passed away, leading members of the Sunday School Movement, a reform movement in the church, entered monastic life and presented themselves as...
One of the distinguishing sub-themes of the Egyptian revolution which began on January 25, 2011, has been the proliferation of Coptic movements.
The pope’s position is target for many fame seekers and the candidacy of bishops will hurl the church into a stage of account settling, said Kamāl Zākhir, a Coptic thinker and coordinator of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Laymen Front. [Amīrah ‘Awad, al-Wafd, Oct. 9, p. 3] Read text in Arabic
Dr. Nājih Ibrāhīm, a member of the al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah (Islamic Group) Shūrá Council, said the Egyptian society is not read now for the implementation of the Islamic sharī’ah, urging the people in power to seek socio-political justice and public freedoms. [Munīr Adīb, al-Misrī al-Yawm, July 5,...
The salafī al-Nūr Party severely slammed Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb for rejecting to provide explanations for the word “principles” in the constitution, urging him to issue a statement indicating why he insists on keeping Article II unchanged. [Hamdī Dabash, ‘Usāmah al-Mahdī,...
Coptic pharmacist Mu'min Majdī Shihātah was forced to leave his dwelling place in the village of Abū George, Banī Mazār town, in a 'urfī (conciliatory) session for comparing Dr. Muhammad al-Barād'ī to hard-line Shaykh Abū Ishaq al-Hūwaynī, according to a Coptic advocacy group. [Shādyah Yūsuf, al-...
Two Air Sinai planes flew from Cairo International Airport for Tel Aviv with 200 Egyptian Christians on board as part of an airlift to carry Egypt’s Copts to perform pilgrimage of the holy Christian sites in Jerusalem. [Husayn al-Zanātī, al-Ahrām, April 9, p. 14] Read original text in Arabic
Dr. Munīr Hannā Anīs, the head of the Episcopal / Anglican Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa, said Christians of Egypt are for keeping Article 2 of the constitution that reads Islam is the official religion of the state and principles of the sharī’ah are the main source of...
On November 25, 2011, Al-Misrī al-Yawm, now called Egypt Independent, was the first publication that reported about Najīb Jubrā’īl’s “NGO report: 93,000 Copts left Egypt since March.”  
Coptic activists expressed discontent over a report by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR)'s fact-finding commission over the October 9 incidents in the area of Maspero which left dozens killed or wounded.

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