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Upon the decline of the Coptic Orthodox Church to join the dialogue initiated by President Muhammad Mursῑ after several of the Constituent Assembly members have withdrawn, Archpriest Angelious Ishāq, spokesman of Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, stated that the Church is not rejecting a meeting...
Dr. Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salām, a representative of the Azhar on the constitution-drafting panel, said the Azhar demands keeping the text of Article II as mentioned in the 1971 intact, which is advocated by the representatives of the three churches.  
Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd reports that several Coptic organizations, movements, and personalities have announced the foundation of the Coptic Advisory Council in order to unite Copts and face the difficulties of the political transition in Egypt, especially with regard to the recent wave of Islamist...
Ahmad al-Sa’dāwī reports Hānī Kamīl from the voter registration committee for the Papal elections as saying that the committee had received appeals against 25 voters. The total number of registered voters is 2,500.  
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius mourned the martyrs of duty, the soldiers of the armed forces killed by terrorists recently in Sinai and prayed for God to bestow mercy and patience on their families. 
Pope Tawadros has met with Anne Marlborough, EU Commission’s legal,  human rights and gender equality analyst.
Also speaking on the occasion was Muhammad ‘Alī Bishr, a member of the Irshād (Guidance) Office of the Muslim Brotherhood group, who said that Egypt has lost an unprecedented patriotic figure, praying that Pope Shenouda’s successor would pursue his path. [Ahmad Sa’dāwī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, April 25...
The Church made clear that it understands the nature of the Constitutional declaration being issued in a transitional phase but asks to prepare a new Constitution other than the suspended one. A scheduled meeting between Bishop Būlā of Tantā, representative of the Church, and the President’s...
Additionally, Bishop Būlā of Tantā said that the Church will launch an annual award in the name of Pope Shenouda III, this year, the award will be granted to the physician who treated Pope Shenouda for six years in the United States (Ahmad Sa’dāwī, Caroline Kāmil and Hātim al-Jahmī, al-Shurūq al-...
The Coptic Evangelical Church has announced that Dr. Ikrām Lam’ī, head of Comparative Religion at the Faculty of Evangelical Theology, has won the election for the post of head of the Synod of the Nile. He receieved 141 votes in comparison to 103 votes for Reverend Samīr Sadāq (Ahmad Sa’dāwī, al-...
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