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Political leaders and officials worked out a solution to a problem resulting from a local authority’s demolition of a four-story church annex building. The building was used for church services, as a small hospital and a meeting place. There are almost fourteen thousand Christian families in this...
Bishop Marcos reported that President Mubarak granted a permit to build a church in Shoubra Al-Kheima. This decision came after the US Copts Association organized an international protest against the demolition of a building belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church. It is practice of Coptic Orthodox...
The verdict given in the action of Al-Kosheh has caused a strong line of division between Egypt’s Muslims and Christians. Most Muslims accept the impartiality of the court while many Christians, inside and outside Egypt, expressed their anger in articles, letters and interviews about the verdict....
Judge Mohammed Afifi, who gave the ruling in Al-Kosheh action, said that the sentences relating to the twenty Christian people, who died in the incidents, were ratified. Bishop Wissa said that the church leaders had confidence in the judicial system and that they would not enjoy their rights...
The Monuments and Tourism prosecution service were able to apprehend an antique copy of the Old Testament inside a private car with four suspects (a driver, jeweler, accountant and a merchant) in Shoubra Al-Kheima. The book is an antique and handwritten dating back to the 17th century.
Sub-titles: The Israeli policy is aggressive and does not change. The people who carry out this policy are the only thing that changes I reject normalization with Israel I refused to participate in the Bethlehem 2000 Conference because I will not enter the Holy City while it is still partially...
Youssef Sidhom gives an example of how the decree of the ten conditions issued by Ezabi Pasha (the Hamayouni law) affects the relations between the applicants for building churches and the state system through presenting a case history of one recent church building projects in Shubra Al-Kheima. He...
The cave of the Holy Family in Mustorod is being restored and receives a new image. The church is in the possession of a miracle icon which brings healing for ailments.
It is not easy to defy the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III - and get away with it - as the family of one dead clergyman has learned. No one - including some of the pope’s most reliable allies - had anticipated the kind of revenge Pope Shenouda had arranged for...
The article is an attack on the Coptic Orthodox refusal to accept the baptism of the Coptic Catholic and Coptic Evangelical churches in Egypt. However, claims are made that Orthodox priests say are factually not true. Some Orthodox priests were consulted and their comments are found in the...

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