Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Counselor Walīd Mas’ūd, head Burj al-‘Arab Prosecution Office, has ordered that the individual suspected of having killed five people in Alexandria be remanded under custody pending investigation. The suspect claims he was taking vengeance for their mistreatment of him (Shīrīn Tāhir, al-Wafd, Feb....
Date of source: Saturday, February 23, 2013
27-28 April, the dates of the first round of the elections, coincide with the beginning of the Holy Week and Palm Sunday, while the runoffs scheduled for 4-5 May clash with Holy Saturday and Easter, said Bishop Rafiq Gereish, the head of the Catholic Church’s media office.
“Didn’t the president...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson’s visit to the Two Saint's Church in Alexandria has raised many questions. The visit, during which Patterson met with leaders, the high priest, and the lawyer of the families of martyrs, lasted more than two hours and was conducted in the strictest confidence and...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Following the footsteps of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church has chosen Bishop Ibrāhīm Ishāq of al-Minya as successor to Cardinal Antonius Najīb who, for health reasons, resigned from his post. [Author not mentioned, al-Wafd, Jan. 23, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, January 17, 2013
The Coptic Catholic Church of Egypt announced yesterday that Bishop Ibrāhīm Ishāq of al-Minya Governorate has been elected new Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church to replace Patriarch Antonius Najīb.
The spokesman of the Church Father Rafīq Greish said that the official announcement by the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 9, 2012 to Sunday, March 11, 2018
Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah, the chairman of the Coptic Orthodox Church Holy Synod’s Information Committee, said the country is already groaning, rejecting calls to start civil disobedience in protest at the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)’s continuation in power.
“We have to work...
Date of source: Sunday, August 6, 2017
Many women believe that they pay an expensive price for the presence of radicalism and fundamentalism across all three [Abrahamic] religions. In Egypt, the issue of being a Christian woman assuming a senior religious role remains a big problem. Recently, Coptic women started to seek to...
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2017
TV show “Lasaʿāt” hosted Dr. Rev Augustine (Ughasṭīnyūs) Maurice, pastor of the The Holy Family Church in al-Zaytūn to present his book A Historical View of the Coptic Catholic Community in Egypt (rū’ya tārīkhiyya li-ṭā’ifat al-aqbāṭ al-kāthūlīk fī miṣr).
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2017
Aḥmad ʿAbdallāh, Governor of the Red Sea, today welcomed a delegation of Christian clergy and a group of security, popular, and executive leaders, as well as Islamic clerics who attended to offer their well-wishes on the occasion of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr [Eid al-Fitr] in the headquarters of the governorate.
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2017
With an agreement achieved surrounding the first articles of the law, and disagreement surrounding the resultant consequences, the meeting between various Christian sects on the project of a unified personal status code came to an end. The meetings and the various sects’ public...