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On December 6, four newspapers reported about the rally of dozes of Coptic youth at the St. Mark Cathedral in protest of what they called ?the absence of a Coptic priest’s wife? who was forced to convert Islām. Wafaa Costantine, the wife, belongs to the town of Abū al-Matameer in the Delta...
The governor of Cairo, Dr. Abdel-Rahim Shehata, succeeded in ending the disagreement between His Holiness Pope Shenouda III and Father Matta Al-Meskien about a farm on the north coast.
Inspire of the clear unambiguous laws, and despite the explicit instructions of ministers and responsibles of not disturbing Christians in their religious holidays, Christians are still complaining concerning assassinating their right in having feasts as holidays.
We discussed with Bishop Bissenti the possibility of the presence of foreign fingers in the matter, about the American law of religious persecution - whether it had tempted the Copts to start problems from inside Egypt, and about the suggestion of a delegation from [the US] Congress visiting Egypt...
... There were a good number of people with interests - inside and outside - messing with many things, and dealing with what happened in Al-Kosheh as spoils to be taken, even if they had to start more fires in it!
Prime Minister Dr. Atef Ebeid visited Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the missionary province of St. Mark yesterday in the Abbassiyya Cathedral to extend Christmas greetings to him. Dr. Sayyed Tantawi the Sheikh Al-Azhar and other religious and government dignitaries also...
The incidents in Al-Koshh have been controlled after the number of victims increased to twenty dead and thirty-five injured. The conflicts between the inhabitants have also resulted in the burning of two cars and destruction of thirty-three shops. A responsible security official of the Ministry of...
Over a thousand years ago, the site on which the mosque is built, currently the scene of major renovation efforts, witnessed Sayeda Zeinab’s advent to Egypt. She was described as the "heroine of Karbala’," rallying troops at the battle, providing them with water and food, treating the injured and...
Cairo governorate this week celebrated the passage of 1,400 years of Islam in Egypt. The celebration was held in Amr Ibn Al As mosque amidst 10,000 worshippers participating in the ceremony. The district the mosque sits is one of the most ancient in the Islamic world. It witnessed the Islamic...
In a fresh development in the continuing battle of the Front of Al-Azhar scholars, a report by the State Commissioners Authority has come out in favor of its dissolution, which was decided last year by Cairo Governor Abdel-Rehim Shehata. The Authority will submit its report to the Supreme...

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