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The "Coptic Coalition for Egypt" has submitted a proposal including 20 articles to the Constituent Assembly yesterday to define a hearing committee for ten representatives from Coptic and human rights organizations in Egypt. All proposals that have been prepared by those organizations shall be...
Three Coptic priests have celebrated the holy mass in Diljā village, Dayr Mawās, in southern al-Minya governorate. The mass took place in Virgin Mary and Bishop Abraham Monastery yesterday morning, Wednesday (September 4) after it had been canceled for more than 21 days. The mass was attended by...
Security forces have arrested the member of the Hazimūn group (group supportive of former presidential candidate Hazim Salāh Abū Ismāīl) for terrorizing the Copts in al-Marg by writing offensive threats on the walls of churches. Security forces have stormed defendant Ahmad Gamāl al-Din’s house and...
Hānī Ramsis, member of the High Board of the Maspero Youth Union stated in the memorial event of the Maspero incident in the Cave Church in the Monastery of Saint Simon the Shoe Maker that no one yet has brought the perpetrators to justice (Peter Magdī, al-Tahrīr, Oct. 11, p. 7). Read original text...
The attack has left four citizens dead. There are suspicions that it might be the Muslim Brotherhood, especially because the leaders of the Rāba’ah sit-in did not hesitate to threaten the Copts in reprisal for their participation in protests on June 30 (Peter Majdī, al-Tahrīr, Oct. 22, p. 5). Read...
In what seemed to be a strong message to the perpetrators of the attack on Virgin Mary and the Archangel Michael Church in Warrāq, Bishop Dāwūd Ibrāhīm stated that he insisted that the church will not close for a single hour and that the Sunday School will proceed as usual. He mentioned that on the...
The postponement of a meeting that was scheduled to take place between President Muḥammad Mursī and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawāḍrūs II at the al-Itiḥādīyah presidential palace on Tuesday (November 20) raised controversy in political circles. 
Archpriest Angelus Isḥāq, Secretary of Pope Tawadros II, said the church’s position regarding the constituent assembly has not changed, adding the decision to quit the panel was in agreement with other Christian denominations.
Despite the Syndicate of Journalists Council decision to quit the constituent assembly, later confirmed by the Syndicate’s general assembly meeting, Chairman Mamdūḥ al-Wālī disregarded the decision and attended the final session to vote over the draft constitution.
Bishop Būla was commenting on statements by Muḥammad al-Sāwī, a member of the assembly, that he was representing the church on the panel. “I am afraid these statements were attributed to him (Sāwī) by mistake.”

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