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Report: Bullets from automatic weapons killed Copts in Khosous

April 8, 2013 Featured News

Al-Masry Al-Youm - 8/4/13 Khosous district prosecutors in Qalyubiya Governorate received the initial forensic report on victims of bloody clashes that took place there Friday, which left a Muslim and four Copts dead, and seven others injured. The report said the four Copts were killed by bullets from automatic weapons. The bullets went through the bodies [...]

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Foreign Ministry: 20 Egyptian Copts held in Libya released

March 6, 2013 Featured News

Al-Masry Al-Youm Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm 6/3/13  Libya released 20 Egyptian Copts who were being held in the country on charges of proselytizing, said Ali al-Esheiry, foreign deputy minister for consular affairs, attributing their release to the Egyptian Consulate in Benghazi’s efforts. Esheiry said the mission is still working toward the release of 23 [...]

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Coptic church gets help from liberal groups after Islamists protest construction

March 4, 2013 News

Al-Masry Al-Youm  28/02/2013  After an Islamist attempt to halt construction at an Egyptian Orthodox Church in Qalyubiya earlier this week, political groups visited Coptic leaders to express their support and resolve the dispute. Salafis and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated protesters had surrounded the Abu Maqar Church in Shubra al-Kheima Monday in an attempt to stop construction on the church’s [...]

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In constitution debate, Al-Azhar gets high praise from church leaders

July 13, 2012 Featured News

Al-Masry Al-Youm 12/07/2012 Coptic Orthodox Church representatives serving on the Constituent Assembly have welcomed a proposal that would enshrine Islam as the state religion but also protect the right of Christians and Jews to follow their religious codes. Article 2 of the new constitution would be much like that of the 1971 Constitution, stating that [...]

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Grand mufti: Morsy should address Copts’ fears

June 27, 2012 Featured News

Al-Masry Al-Youm 27/06/2012 President-elect Mohamed Morsy should address the fears of his Coptic “brothers” and their problems on the ground, Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa said Wednesday. The mufti said Morsy alone would not be able to reform the country or address problems faced by average citizens, and that he needs nationwide support, according to statements [...]

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Church extends voter registration for papal election

June 22, 2012 Featured News

Photographed by AFP Al-Masry Al-Youm 21/06/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church on Wednesday extended the voter registration process for papal elections from June to mid-July. The new pope will succeed Pope Shenouda III, who died on 17 March at the age of 89, after a long struggle with disease. The extension will allow Copts in Russia [...]

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Pope Shenouda undergoes medical examinations in US

January 17, 2012 News

Al-Masry Al-Youm Staff 16/01/2012 Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, underwent medical examinations on his heart and kidneys at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic in the United States on Monday. “Doctors will assess the pope’s state of health over several hours after undergoing the medical examination,” a church source told Al-Masry Al-Youm. Speaking [...]

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Egyptian churches embrace Al-Azhar basic freedoms document

January 13, 2012 Featured News

Al-Masry Al-Youm Staff 12/01/2012 Egypt’s three major churches and the Maspero Youth Union have come out in support of Al-Azhar’s proposed basic freedoms document, which lays out a basic framework for respecting freedom of belief and expression in Egypt. The Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical churches all support the document, and the Maspero Youth Union said [...]

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Pope Shenouda to invite Salafis to attend Christmas

December 28, 2011 News

Al-Masry Al-Youm Staff 28/12/2011 The Coptic Orthodox Church will send out invitations to presidential hopefuls and all political parties, including Salafi ones, to attend the Christmas holy mass on 7 January, a papal source told Al-Masry Al-Youm. The source said that Pope Shenouda III insisted on inviting both Muslim and Coptic Egyptians to the celebration. [...]

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Coptic Church to support independents in run-off Elections

December 5, 2011 Featured News

Ragab Ramadan 04/12/2011 The Coptic Orthodox Church will support independent candidates in Alexandria against Islamist parties in the run-offs for the first phase of the parliamentary elections, according to Kamil Seddiq Sawiris, secretary of the church’s Coptic Ecclesiastical Council. The first phase began on 28 November and has seen the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice [...]

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Church not directing Copts to vote for certain candidates, says bishop

November 27, 2011 Featured News

Emad Khalil 26/11/2011 The Coptic Orthodox Church said Saturday it is not specifying a list of candidates for Coptic adherents to vote for in the upcoming parliamentary elections and is merely calling on Copts to vote. Recent rumors that the church is directing Copts to vote for certain candidates are not true, Bishop Morkos, a [...]

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Alexandria churches to promote Coptic participation in Elections

November 7, 2011 News

07/11/2011 Orthodox churches in the coastal city of Alexandria have launched an awareness campaign aiming to encourage Coptic Christians to take part in the parliamentary elections scheduled to begin on 28 November. The churches will implement their campaign through what they are calling “citizenship committees” formed by activists and young volunteers, which will urge Copts [...]

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Live Updates: Protesters march from Coptic Hospital to Cathedral

October 11, 2011 News

10/10/2011 1:01 am: The funeral service is over. 12:56 am: The priest announces that all of the martyrs will be buried together in a collective Christian cemetary in 6 October City. A commotion errupts as the coffins are taken from the cathedral and crying mourners struggle to touch them. 12:40 am: The cathedral is full [...]

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Copts demanding right to divorce will collectively leave Church

August 14, 2011 Featured News

Emad Khalil Yomna Mokhtar 13/08/2011 The Right to Life Movement, a Coptic group, said a large number of its members will collectively leave the Coptic Orthodox Church, while retaining their Christianity, in response to the Church’s refusal to permit divorce and second marriages except in cases of adultery. A senior bishop, who asked not to [...]

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Copts alarmed by rise in young female converts to Islam

August 9, 2011 Featured News
Photographed by Mohamed Abdel Ghany

Alastair Beach 08/08/2011 The video footage is blurred and shaky, but there is no mistaking the identity of the two young girls. Sitting in what appears to be a busy city square and speaking above a cacophony of car horns, Christine and Nancy Fathy explain to the camera why they have run away from their [...]

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Egyptian Women’s legal center demands personal status law for Copts

July 3, 2011 News

Yomna Mokhtar 02/07/2011 The Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA) announced support for Copts’ demand for a personal status law for non-Muslims. Such a law would deal with issues of marriage and divorce separately from church regulations. The center said such as law is necessary in light of sectarian violence triggered when Copts do [...]

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Sectarian violence kills 2 in Shubra

June 27, 2011 Featured News

27/06/2011 Sectarian clashes between a number of Muslims and Coptic Christians resurfaced in the Fateh district of Shubra al-Kheima on Monday, after two Muslims were shot and killed by a Copt on Sunday. Security forces surrounded the area, imposed a security cordon around churches in the area and arrested seven Muslims and Copts carrying weapons. [...]

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Egyptian churches consider response for places of worship draft Bill

June 15, 2011 News

14/06/2011 Egypt’s Christian Orthodox, evangelical and Catholic denominations plan to hold a meeting to draw up a response to the draft law on places of worship. Previously, they had expressed their rejection of many features of the bill. The Orthodox Church earlier rejected nine features of the bill, while the other two denominations continue to [...]

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Church awaiting unified law for places of Worship

May 31, 2011 News

30/05/2011 The Coptic Orthodox Church has called on the cabinet to present it with the unified law for places of worship once it has been drafted. A Church source said that head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III, was awaiting the law. The source went on to say that the Church has rejected [...]

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Egypt: Enforced disappearance of Camilia Shehata

December 12, 2010 Featured News

By IHRC 10/12/2010 LONDON: Six months have passed since Camilia Shehata, the 26-year-old wife of a priest, raised as an Orthodox Christian in Egypt disappeared after converting to Islam. She fled from her home on July 18, 2010 and was found five days later by police. The police handed her over to the Coptic Orthodox [...]

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