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Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2018
Pope Tawadros appoints Bishop Paula in place of Bishop Bishoy
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Shākir Arbān, legal representative for Washington Copts organization, sent a memo to the Egyptian presidency asking the President to remove Maurice Sādiq and other expatriate Coptic leaders from the list of people declared persona non grata.This came after rumors of releasing Wajdī Ghunaym as one...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
In another development, Nādir al-Sirafī, a spokesperson of the 1938 Copts Movement, said he sent a letter to Field Marshal Husayn Tantāwī, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that included complaints about the state’s slackness to solve the crisis between the movement and the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2012
As the Holy Synod is meeting soon under acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius to decide on bishops nominated for the papal chair of Saint Mark, signature-collecting campaigns of the so-called East Bells Union of Alexandria Churches intensified to reiterate rejection of the nomination of bishops who...
Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2012
Dr. Usāmah Ahmad ‘Abd Allāh, the CEO of al-Ummah channel and Maria channel, which he plans to launch soon, said Maria is dedicated for niqāb-wearing women only and there will be no men on the crew at all.
He said that the channel will be totally separate from al-Ummah, owned by his father, Shaykh...
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church held a series of meetings marked by confidentiality with some bishops of the Holy Synod to reach a guiding list of some presidential candidates to agree on one of them to be backed by the church in the forthcoming elections.
The church has set some...
Date of source: Thursday, May 3, 2012
Several presidential candidates were keen to meet veteran politician Mustafá al-Fiqī, including ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh. Al-Fiqī discussed with Abū al-Futūh a state of doubts prevailing in the Egyptian street over the Islamist candidate, particularly by proponents of a civil state and women who...
Date of source: Thursday, April 19, 2012
Archpriest Andarāwus ‘Azīz Sulaymān, who obtained a court ruling in 2002 to return to his priestly position, said he received a phone call from a woman working at the papal office, adding the phone conversation revealed information about the destiny of some priests and bishops who were banished...
Date of source: Thursday, April 12, 2012
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria revealed a split among members of the Millī Council – seven members – over persons most likely to be the next patriarch of Copts in succession of Pope Shenouda III.
Some Copts in the northern Egyptian Mediterranean city now call the Millī Council...
Date of source: Thursday, April 12, 2012
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria revealed a split among members of the Millī Council – seven members – over persons most likely to be the next patriarch of Copts in succession of Pope Shenouda III.
Some Copts in the northern Egyptian Mediterranean city now call the Millī Council...
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