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Date of source: Monday, July 22, 2019
An interview conducted by Cornelis Hulsman and Father Joannis from the Coptic Orthodox Church
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[The text was written as a chapter for Freedom of Belief and Christian Mission, Edited by Hans Aage Gravaas, Christof Sauer, Tormod Engelsviken, Maqsood Kamil and Knud Jørgensen. Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series, Vol.
Date of source: Thursday, May 6, 2021
A decades-old conflict between Egyptian and Ethiopian monks over the ownership of the Monastery of the Sultan [dayr al-Sulṭān] in Jerusalem has flared up once again.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Members of the Episcopal Church of Egypt were called to come to the All Saints Cathedral for an extra-ordinary church meeting that was carefully designed to result in a call for a letter to President Abdelfattah al-Sisi [ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī] to recognize the Anglican Diocese of Egypt as an...
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2021
Egyptian churches stressed their solidarity with the Egyptian state, army, and police in the wake of Nabīl Ḥabashī Salāma’s murder. Ḥabashī was kidnapped by terrorists five months ago in North Sinai, and a video of his execution was recently published on their media platforms.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Pope Tawāḍrūs II honored Major General Ḥussām Khiḍr, head of the Public Treasury Authority and Mint, Dr. Sharīf Ḥāzim, advisor to the Finance Minister for Engineering, and several engineers and designers at the treasury, thanking them for their work to issue commemorative coins featuring the Coptic...
Date of source: Friday, March 19, 2021
Naẓīr Jayyid Rūfāʾil, who would later become Pope Shinūda, was born on August 3, 1923, to a middle-class family in the rural village of Salām in Asyūṭ. He was the youngest child in the family, having five sisters and two brothers. His mom passed away two days after giving birth to him leaving him...
Human Rights Organization Calls for Pardon of Monk Ashʿiyāʾ al-Maqārī after Being Sentenced to Death
Date of source: Monday, March 1, 2021
The “Stop the Death Penalty in Egypt” Facebook page run by the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) has launched a new campaign entitled “Life for Monk Ashʿiyāʾ,” demanding a presidential pardon for Wāʾil Saʿad Tawāḍrūs. Tawāḍrūs was convicted of murdering Bishop Epiphanius [...
Date of source: Sunday, February 21, 2021
Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism has condemned the Zionist entity’s plans to build about 3000 settlements on lands belonging to the Orthodox Church on the border of the town of "Bayt Ṣafāfā". These plans threaten to besiege the occupied city of Jerusalem and isolate it from its...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Tomorrow marks the eighth anniversary of the founding of the Egyptian Council of Churches (ECC), which was established on February 18, 2013, by the heads and members of the Egyptian churches. The idea for the council came after Egyptian churches participated in meetings held by the Middle Eastern...
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