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Dr. Rev. Safwat al-Bayādī, head of the Evangelical Church in Egypt, stressed that Church withdrawal form the Constituent Assembly was due to not including Copts in the Constitution although they are half of the community. 
The independent newspaper Sawt al-Ummah published a collection of opinions by salafī clerics in one week, beginning with Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, a senior salafist in Alexandria, who said that the Copts are kāfirs (disbelievers) and accordingly they have to pay the jizyah. Shaykh Muhammad al-Zughbī said...
The regime has fallen and consequently all its men should fall with him, including Coptic Pope Shenouda III, who had called on the Copts during the early days of the January 25 revolution to stay at home, write Manāl 'Abd al-Latīf and Ridā Tāhir al-Fiqī in an article.
A lot of voices demanded cancelling the second article in the constitution which states: "Islam is the Religion of the State. Arabic is its official language, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic sharīyah." However, salafīs' shaykhs strongly disagree.    
The article casts light on a recent book entitled ‘al-Kanīsah wa al-Sīyāsah’ [Church and Politics] by the defrocked Orthodox priest, Andrāwis ‘Azīz.
Bishop Mansūr of the Coptic Orthodox Church believes both that circumcision is obsolete and that women should access the altar.
Sa‘īd ‘Abd al-Masīh explains the corruption which forced him to leave the defense team for the man accused of raping a Muslim girl in Farshūt.
/*-->*/ This article deals with the Anglican Church and their trust in the Egyptian government, and Mubārak
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