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Acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius refused canceling any of the 2008 amendments introduced by late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III on the rules of divorce and marriage, which confined to divorce only to reasons of adultery and conversion to other faiths. [Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, May 15, p. 3] ...
The village of al-Jamhūd in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minyā has seen a tense day after a Coptic young man converted to Islam. Several local residents said 32-year-old Ayman Yūsuf ‘Ayyād’s family forced him into the house of his mother’s family and tried to bring him to reverse his...
It is true the government does not have a policy of persecution against Copts but this should not deny the fact that Copts have been suffering from many problems, dilemmas and congesting atmosphere. [Tāriq Hijj, al-Wafd, May 15, p. 2] Read original text in Arabic
In his election platform, presidential candidate Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā said Egyptians are equal before the law, adding any discrimination among Egyptian citizens on the basis of religion, ethnicity or sex is a crime that has to be punishable by the law. [Muná Abū Sakīn, al-Wafd, May 15, p. 9] ...
“Our issue now is to achieve justice, freedom, democracy, equality and respect for human rights, on top of which comes citizenship,” said Tayīb during a meeting with Dutch ambassador in Cairo Susan Blankhart on Monday (May 14). [Muhammad ‘Abd al-Khāliq, al-Ahrām, May 15, p. 1] Read original text in...
In another development, the administrative judiciary court in the coastal governorate of al-Ismailia adjourned a lawsuit accusing foreigners of trespassing on about 20% of the archeological spots in South Sinai, in Saint Catherine area, and setting up buildings and brining foreign monks to reside...
Presidential candidate Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā said the most dangerous thing about the voting process is the unprecedented polarization based on Islamic slogans because it depicts persons who do not belong to this camp as if they were opposing Islam. “Another form of political deviation is the war...
The committee registering voters for the papal elections said until Sunday (May 20), the number of candidates for the post reached 18 after Bishop Pachomius, the acting patriarch, and Bishop Mīnā of Old Cairo announced they will not run for the position. [Husnī Mīlād a,l-Akhbār, May 21, p. 3] Read...
Bishop Mūsá, meanwhile, said the rates of Copts’ migration are increasing by threefold annually due to fears by the minority to coexist with the majority. He noted during a conference organized by the Arab team for Muslim-Christian dialogue in a Cairo hotel that there are four mechanisms for...
Meanwhile, Bishop Abrām of al-Fayyoum, a member of the papal elections committee, said the panel will announce the final list of candidates for the patriarch post by May 30, adding the committee will continue collecting papers of candidates until May 26. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, May 21, p....

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