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Meanwhile, Counselor Munsif Sulaymān, a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s General Millī Council, announced on Wednesday (May 30) the final list of candidates for the papal chair of Saint Mark, totaling 17, including seven bishops and 10 monks. The list includes Bishop Yū’ānnis, Bishop Bīshūy...
Acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius affirmed that the church does not interfere in political affairs nor does it take sides with this or that candidate. “Copts have cast their votes as Egyptian citizens. If anyone votes for a certain candidate, then it happened as citizens,” he said during a meeting...
“Reports asserted that the majority of Copts voted for Shafīq, ‘Amr Mūsá and Hamdīn Sabbāhī and a fewer number voted even for former MB member ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh as well as other presidential candidates with all their different political affiliations and ideologies,” the ECHR said in a...
In the midst of all these political crises and economic slowdown, there is actually no voice by intellectuals as their unity and solidarity to defend the Arab destiny are absent. [Yūhannā Qultah, al-Ahrām, June 18, p. 10] Read original text in Arabic
In a fresh escalated reaction to the Constitutional Court’s ruling invalidating the law on the election of the People’s Assembly, the lower house of the two-chamber parliament, legislators from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) insisted on convening a legislative committee...
He said that the whole world knows that Egyptians want the implementation of the Islamic sharī’ah, adding Egyptians’ wish to have their country pursuing Islamic laws should not be a reason for concern. “I pledge to preserve churches and monasteries so that everyone feels he/she lives in a nation...
According to the 1957 statute, May 15 will mark the 60th day the papal chair became vacant, Bishop Abrām told al-Ahrām in a meeting attended by Counselors Edward Ghālib and Malak Mīnā, members of the candidacy committee secretariat. Ghālib said the mass media offers suggests incorrect names and...
Pope Shenouda has passed away in a very critical political juncture and amidst confusion and disputes over the political values founding the state and the constitutional system and, more seriously, amidst growing fears and misgivings over the future of Christians in Egypt and the Arab region,...
The Cairo Criminal Court canceled a decision barring Priest Philopater Jamīl from leaving Egypt over charges pressed against him of involvement in incitation in the October 9 incidents outside the state radio & TV building in Maspero, which left dozens killed or wounded. [Author Not Mentioned, ...
Meanwhile, the North Cairo Criminal Court decided on Saturday (March 17) to postpone considering a petition by Priest Philopater Jamīl of the Virgin Mary Church in Faysal district in Giza over the ban on his departure out of Egypt on charges of involvement in incitation against the armed forces in...

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