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The deadline to receive papers of candidates for the papal chair of Saint Mark in succession of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III, who died in March, expired on Saturday (May 26). The final list of candidates included 18 names – eight bishops and 10 monks – while Bishop Mūsá of Youth stepped down...
Bishop Bisāntī of Helwan and al-Ma’sarah, commenting on the initial results of the first round of Egypt’s post-revolution presidential elections in which Mursī and Shafīq made it to the runoff round, said Christians will accept what God Has chosen and the president approved by the Egyptian people....
Meanwhile, Dr. Kamīl Siddīq, the secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Millī Council in Alexandria, denied that all Coptic votes went to candidate Ahmad Shafīq, adding the majority of their votes went to Hamdīn Sabbāhī. He also denied that the church has directed its congregation to elect a...
“The Muslim Brotherhood has always been against the revolution while the Salafists have always been rejecting revolts against rulers…black flags were raised in the sit-in of al-‘Abbāssīyah a couple of weeks ago to indicate that al-Qā’idah entered Egypt, which has not taken place so far. However, al...
“The Dutch journalist attacked late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III when he said that the pope deepened Christians’ feelings of persecution by exaggerating on estimations regarding the Coptic population,” said Bishop Bīshūy, who runs in the papal election to sit on the Saint Mark chair. The...
In another development, the administrative judiciary court in the coastal governorate of al-Ismailia adjourned a lawsuit accusing foreigners of trespassing on about 20% of the archeological spots in South Sinai, in Saint Catherine area, and setting up buildings and brining foreign monks to reside...
Presidential candidate Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā said the most dangerous thing about the voting process is the unprecedented polarization based on Islamic slogans because it depicts persons who do not belong to this camp as if they were opposing Islam. “Another form of political deviation is the war...
The committee registering voters for the papal elections said until Sunday (May 20), the number of candidates for the post reached 18 after Bishop Pachomius, the acting patriarch, and Bishop Mīnā of Old Cairo announced they will not run for the position. [Husnī Mīlād a,l-Akhbār, May 21, p. 3] Read...
Bishop Mūsá, meanwhile, said the rates of Copts’ migration are increasing by threefold annually due to fears by the minority to coexist with the majority. He noted during a conference organized by the Arab team for Muslim-Christian dialogue in a Cairo hotel that there are four mechanisms for...
Meanwhile, Bishop Abrām of al-Fayyoum, a member of the papal elections committee, said the panel will announce the final list of candidates for the patriarch post by May 30, adding the committee will continue collecting papers of candidates until May 26. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, May 21, p....

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