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“What are your orientations and most important files?” This could be one of the most controversial questions asked to the pope during the next few days.  
There are concerns about the approaches of drafting the new Egyptian Constitution which is currently dominating the political climate in Egypt. These concerns are associated with the criteria for the formation of the constituent assembly and its members. So far the final shape of the assembly is...
Everyone agrees that the departure of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III is a genuinely-serious matter considering the pope’s important personality during nearly half a century of crises and events or the Egyptian church’s position as a key Egyptian institution thanks to the pope.
In the early 1960s during the tenure of late Pope Kyrillos VI, Coptic Orthodox Christians had only seven churches abroad – two in each of the United States, Canada and Australia and only in Britain (1).
  The following overview was made in preparation for a press conference of the Cairo Foreign Press Association on March 27, 2012.   The profiles and commentary herein have been compiled by Hānī Labīb, Managing Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translations and Arab West Report,...
I personally find it rather embarrassing to write about the future of the Egyptian church due to implicit meanings that there will be some talking about the post-Pope Shenouda III period, a matter many Egyptian Christian citizens find it improper and undesirable.  
Idfū Court has sentenced Archpriest Makarious Būlus ‘Awad, Priest of al-Marīnab church in Aswan governorate, to prison for six months and a fine of EgP 300. He was convicted of illegally increasing the height of the church building, violating the permit of the church. [Al-Misrīyūn, March 6, 2012]  
(Right) now all the political groups in Egypt conform to one main principle, which is to make sure that every part of society is represented in the constituent assembly that will draft the Egyptian constitution. There is no doubt that this principle is credible as long as it is implemented...
The talk about foreign funding in Egypt for more than 10 years now had been inextricably linked to elections but what is being marketed on the mass media regarding Egypt's civil society most of the time involves inaccuracy, exaggeration and downplaying.
For a few weeks now, I have been closely following the fuss surrounding the visit by a delegation from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-'Abbāssīyah in the evening of January 6 under Lt. General Sāmī 'Anān to congratulate...

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