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In the article, the criticisms of a number of thinkers and politicians have been continually targeting the banned Muslim Brotherhood group on their proposed manifesto for their political party, which has excluded non-Muslims and women from running for presidency.
The author criticizes the Coptic Orthodox Church for issuing a remarriage license to the Coptic actress Hālah Ṣidqī, due to her good relations with leaders of the church, while leaving the cases of 15,000 people who have long been applying for this license unresolved.
A Coptic Orthodox newspaper is withdrawn. Rumors spread about the involvement of Waṭanī and the Egyptian security apparatus. Meanwhile, Yūsuf Sīdhum, editor-in-chief of Waṭanī declared that the Supreme Council of Journalism was responsible.
A Coptic laymen’s group called for radical changes in the system and rules of the Coptic Orthodox patriarch elections. The suggestions were severely rejected by the church and a wide range of Copts. Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá, purportedly the leader of the laymen’s group, wrote an article explaining his...
A group of Coptic Orthodox laymen held a conference in which participants proposed new rules for choosing the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The list of rules is meant to replace those that were issued in 1957. They suggested that the future patriarch be a married layman. The church and...
Two Coptic Laymen criticize Bishop Bīshūy and accuse him of exploiting Pope Shenouda’s absence to try and assume control of the Holy See. They called for an urgent session of the Holy Synod and Coptic men of law and religion to edit the legislation of electing the pope. They further denounced a...
The author discusses the upcoming seminar initiated by Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá under the auspices of the Egyptian Society for Enlightenment, which will discuss topics such as Copts and citizenship; the relationship between clergy and laymen; laymen participation in church affairs; church trials and the...
Max Michel, the self-proclaimed Archbishop Maximus ?, whose behaviour and perverse ideas have sparked a major controversy amongst Orthodox Copts, is facing a lawsuit filed by fourteen Copt and Muslim lawyers on charges of having insulted Pope Shenouda ???.
The misdemeanour court of Khalīfah yesterday heard prosecution witnesses in the trial of Bishop Maximus, on charges of having insulted Pope Shenouda.
The author reports on the adjourned session of a lawsuit filed by a number of Copts accusing Max Michel, the self-appointed archbishop of Orthodox Christians in Egypt, who named himself as Metropolitan Maximus I, of slandering Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark.
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