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Date of source: Friday, April 3, 2015
A number of Coptic Christian organizations for Personal Status Laws are convening a meeting in the next several days to respond to Pope Tawadros’ recent statement criticizing those organizations. Ishāq Fransīs, the general coordinator for a Coptic organization for Personal Status Laws, said that...
Date of source: Thursday, April 2, 2015
Speaking in an interview, Pope Tawadros said “we will not accept civil marriage in exchange for marriage in the church, in accordance with Coptic Personal Status Laws.” He added that even though the state accepts it, the church would never approve it. He also spoke about elections inside the church...
Date of source: Sunday, March 29, 2015
In the first challenge to Pope Tawadros’ resolution restricting Egyptian Christians’ travel to Jerusalem for Easter celebrations, a number of pilgrims began the pilgrimage across Jordan heading toward Jerusalem. The Copts said that they did not regret making the decision to make the pilgrimage,...
Date of source: Sunday, March 15, 2015
Next Tuesday, the Orthodox Church headed by Pope Tawadros will host an event for the third annual memory of Pope Shenoda III in Wādī Al-Natrūn where he was buried. On the 26th of March, the church will host another event to remember the fallen Copts in Libya.
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Date of source: Thursday, February 26, 2015
Tawadros inaugurated the new church of virgins and martyrs. Besides Tawadros, a number of representatives from the Christian community of Egypt attended the prayer.
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Date of source: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
The Egyptian Housing Ministry agreed with the request of Pope Tawadros to grant a piece of land in new Cairo to the Coptic church in order to build a supplementary headquarters to the St. Mark’s Cathedral in ‘Abbāsiyya. The Ministry also agreed to increase the area of land designated for building...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II met with Pope Francis in the Vatican as part of a historic visit between the two institutions. The meeting was part of the commemoration of a memorandum signed between the churches 40 years ago when Pope Shenūda III visited the Vatican in 1973.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Anba Sarabamon al-Shāyeb, head of All Saints Monastery in the village of al-Ṭūd of Luxor, criticized priests who support the electoral campaigns of parliamentary candidates, stressing that all religious clerics should not be involved in politics.
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2015
Prime Minister Ibrāhīm Mahlab and Interior Minister General Muhammad Ibrāhīm accompanied Egypt’s President ‛Abd al-Fatāh al-Sīsī on a visit to Saint Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo to offer their condolences to Pope Tawādrūs II for the deaths of the Egyptian martyrs in Libya at the hands of ISIS. Mahlab...
Date of source: Saturday, January 10, 2015
Pope Matyāof Ethiopia thanked Pope Tawadros for his invitation to visit Egypt and reiterated his belief in the necessity of developing the relationship between the two parishes. Pope Matyā assured Pope Tawadros that all of the impact studies conducted investigating the impact of the Renaissance Dam...
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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.