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Sadness is overwhelming the Copts of the Mediterranean city of Alexandria after Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawāḍrūs II postponed his two-day visit that was scheduled for Saturday (November 24) due to bad security conditions.
The Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod unanimously named Bishop Raphael of Central Cairo Churches, who was one of the three finalists to the chair of Saint Mark, as secretary of the Synod instead of Bishop Bīshūy of Damietta.
The Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod unanimously named Bishop Raphael of Central Cairo Churches, who was one of the three finalists to the chair of Saint Mark, as secretary of the Synod instead of Bishop Bīshūy of Damietta.
The Coptic Orthodox Church’s committee on the amendment of the 1957 statute regarding the election of patriarch is holding its second meeting under Bishop Pachomius of al-Biḥayra to finalize it within one year and prepare it for the next parliament to endorse as law.
Amidst cheers and ovation, the Cairo Criminal Court asked for the authorization of the Grand Muftī of the Republic on a death sentence in absentia against seven defendants facing charges of involvement in a film denigrating the Prophet Muḥammad and Islām.
Objections to the president’s decrees caused tension and clashes with members of the Muslim Brotherhood group in a number of governorates, topped by a most heated Alexandria.
The Coptic Orthodox Church is maintaining its position regarding Mursī’s decrees today (November 24) as Bishop Pachomius and Pope Tawadros II are meeting to discuss the constitutional declaration while Coptic activists termed the decrees as a “setback that marks the beginning of the division of...
Bishop Basantī of Ḥilwān and al-Maʿṣara, a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, said the Egyptian people came together in Taḥrīr Square and other governorates to announce their rejection of “the immense powers” grabbed by the president. 
Coptic movements and groups expressed rejection against the constitutional declaration as a large number of them participated in the demonstrations while Christian intellectuals flatly refused the declaration which they termed as “division of the nation”.
The al-Marj Court of Misdemeanor adjourned the trial of Albir ʿAyyād Sābir, a Copt who faces charges of religion disdaining, insulting prophets and openly casting doubts over heavenly books and sanctities, to the December 12 session as courts are on a strike protesting a constitutional declaration...

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