Date of source: Sunday, July 31, 2011
Coptic activists and organizations say that they refuse to transform the Egyptian revolution into a religious one, criticizing the Islamists that dominated Tahrīr Square on Friday. Speaking to Al-Misrī Al-Yawm on Saturday, the activists voiced their intentions to fight for a civil state that...
Date of source: Friday, July 8, 2011
The Maspero Youth Union announced their participation in Friday’s Revolution First, which will be via a march from Shubrā after Friday prayers to Tahrīr Square, where they will stage a sit-in.
The spokesman for the union, Rāmī Kāmil, announced their participation in Friday’s Revolution First...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
A Coptic bishop called on the authorities to expedite procedures to issue a license for a "controversial church" in Ain Shams. "More than 2,000 Coptic families in Ain Shams are waiting for a license for the church to hold their prayers after a pledge by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to open the...
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Sanne Lundberg’s thesis was about the strong Coptic Christian perception of being discriminated, the interplay of this belief with religious beliefs, as well as
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Is the church in Egypt persecuted? Many Coptic Christians would answer in the affirmative. I definitely agree that the situation for Christians in Egypt has worsened but I do not agree using the word persecution before we have first agreed on a definition and compare facts on the ground with this...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
The Salafī demonstration and subsequent attacks on Coptic Orthodox churches in the poor Cairo suburb of Imbābah on Saturday reportedly began after claims that a Christian woman, 'Abīr, had converted to Islam for marital reasons and later ran 'Awwāy. Whatever the truth of these claims, the fact...
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2011
As Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Christ…
Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. He launched a new era, an era of reconciliation and salvation, where the old things are done with and everything becomes new. It is an era in which man is released from retribution, and is consequently able to...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
In this article, the author highlights a voice recording published at al-Marsad al-Islāmī Limuqāwmat al-Tansīr (Islamic Observatory for the Resistance to Christianization) website http://www.tanseerel.com by a Muslim who alleged that he hosted Kamīliyā after she declared her desire to convert to...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2010
A priest called Azra Fakhry states that Pope Shenouda asked the bishop of Maghagha not to obligate in the agreement with the governor and he will solve the problem.
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2010
Thousands of Copts from Maghāghah and al-Adawa in Minia, Upper Egypt, staged a sit-in at the bishopric grounds in Maghāghah last Monday to protest what they saw as unjust, humiliating treatment at the hands of Minia governor Ahmad Dīyā’ al-Dīn.
Heading the protest was Bishop Aghathoun, Bishop of...