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Date of source: Tuesday, February 5, 2013
According to sources of the papal headquarters, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II is planning a visit to the United States of America and Canada for the opening of new Coptic Churches there. This will be the first trip abroad since his consecration last November.
The sources added that expatriate...
Date of source: Thursday, January 31, 2013
Archpriest Marqus ‘Azīz of the Hanging Church in Old Cairo who now serves at a church in the United States, threatened the Muslim Brotherhood: “Beware Muslim Brotherhood for you did not stop attacking me on Facebook and do not blame anyone except yourselves. We will not accept a fitnah tā'ifīyah if...
Date of source: Thursday, January 31, 2013
A large number of Copts and Christian coalitions will participate in the protests, the most prominent being the Maspero Youth Union and Copts Without Restrictions, etc. Also participating in the demonstrations are members of the Black Bloc, who are considering taking Archpriest Marqus ‘Azīz,...
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2013
Member of the Shūrá Council Dr. Mājid Al ꞌAqqād said that he had submitted his resignation from the Shūrá Council last Friday. He had announced his resignation is a reaction to the violence that took place in front of the presidential palace between protesters and police, and what he described as "...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The privately-owned Islamist al-Misrīyūn reported yesterday, January 30, that the three major Coptic Churches have not been invited to the national dialogue sessions held between civil and political representatives and the presidential administration.
Coptic activists stated that the Churches do...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The seven Egyptian defendants are the lawyer and founder of the Washington-based National Coptic Assembly Maurice Sādiq, the presenter of a religious program in the United States of America Marqus 'Azīz, the media coordinator of the same Nabīl Adīb, the physician Fikrī 'Abd al-'Azīz, Nakoula...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Al-Misrīyūn Islamist newspaper writes that Church sources had allegedly disclosed that Father Marqus ’Azīz, parish priest of the Hanging Church in Old Cairo is the spiritual father of the “anarchic” Black Bloc Group. Under the code name “the earthly soldiers of Christ”, Father ’Azīz initiates the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 24, 2013
Churches across all departments in Egypt have intensified their efforts to encourage Copts of all ages to participate in the siege of the Presidential Palace [Itihādīyah] and to call for the fall of President Muhammad Mursī. During a sermon on Wednesday (January 23) morning, dioceses’ bishops...
Date of source: Friday, January 25, 2013
Al-Misrīyūn covered the same report, but stressed that the decision for withdrawal was from Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II who “instructed” the Catholic and Evangelical churches to follow (John ‘Abd al-Malāk and Muhammad Rabī’, al-Misrīyūn, January 25, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, January 10, 2013
Egypt's Salafist al-Nūr Party on Wednesday, January 9, chose Yūnis Makhīyūn as its chairman in an internal party election. Makhīyūn, who won the election uncontested, replaces former Al-Nūr leader, Dr. ’Imād ’Abd Al-Ghaffūr.
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