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Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2020
Christianity entered Egypt with Mark the Evangelist during the time of the reign of Nero in the first century. The Christians in Egypt at that time used the Coptic language and the Coptic Church still uses Coptic in prayers today. In his book "A Short Account of the Copts", the American...
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2019
A research paper by ‘The Arab Network for Human Rights Information’ found that news of the death of former Egyptian president Muḥammad Mursī constituted a “scandal for Egyptian media.”
Date of source: Sunday, January 13, 2019
A few days ago, Egypt’s president stood side by side with Pope Tawāḍrūs II to observe the inauguration of the cathedral and the mosque in the new Administrative Capital, as well as to talk about the “tree of love”, which, “we the Egyptians, planted together in Egypt during past years, and which it...
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2012
The Committee for the Coptic Orthodox Papal Nomination is due to meet on the September 4 to start receiving appeals to the Patriarchal candidates. After receiving all appeals, the committee will create a shortlist of between five and seven candidates based on order of preference, taking all appeals...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Archpriest ‘Abd al-Masīh Basīt of the Virgin Mary Church in Musturud said in an interview with al-Misrī al-Yawm newspaper that assaults on Copts and churches are taking place only by extremists, adding those attacks after the January 25 revolution equal all those during the era of former...
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2012
Al-Misrī al-Yawm carries an article by Dr. Rif'at al-Sa'īd of the National Progressive Unionist Party, who says: “To the respectable Dr. Muhammad Mursī: Since your assumption of the presidency attacks on our brother Copts have increased alarmingly, without there being a genuine and decisive...
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2012
Dr. Murād Wahbah writes in al-Misrī al-Yawm: “It has been said that all such events are a fitnah tā'ifīayh. I am not a proponent of resorting to that term to explain these events … and I said that in Egypt we have Muslim fundamentalist and Christian fundamentalists who are very antagonistic, and...
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2012
Most Christian families that left Dahshūr village because of the recent the ‘shirt sedition’ have returned. Everyone seemed happy at this, Muslims and Christians. Family gatherings were held in Muslim and Christian households. [‘Atif Badr, al-Misrī al Yawm, August 11, p. 15]
Date of source: Sunday, April 13, 2014
Ruways Morcos, General Deputy of the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral and official spokesperson for the Church in Alexandria, said that the travel ban to Jerusalem for Orthodox Copts was a decision of the Holy Synod is the highest authority in the church.
Date of source: Saturday, August 4, 2018
In accordance with article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution of 1923, Islam is the religion of the State and Arabic is its official language. The principles of Islamic Sharia are the main source of legislation.
For nearly a century, the drafters of the Egyptian constitution persisted in giving the...
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