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Death to Churches Under Islam: A Study of the Coptic Church

May 1, 2013 Featured News

1/5/13 Raymond Ibrahim Christians throughout the Islamic world are under attack. Unlike Muslim attacks on Christians, which are regularly confused with a myriad of social factors, the ongoing attacks on Christian churches in the Muslim world are perhaps the most visible expression of Christian persecution under Islam. In churches, Christians throughout the Islamic world are [...]

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Coptic Church Egyptian symbol that can never be touched

April 11, 2013 News

10/4/13 President Mohamed Morsi sent a delegation to meet a number of the Coptic Orthodox Church (COC) officials to discuss repercussions of the recent clashes between Muslims and Copts. The delegation included the President’s Assistant for Community Outreach, Dr. Emad Abdel Ghafour, Assistant for Political Affairs, Bakinam el-Sharqawi, and Assistant for Egyptian Expatriates’ Affairs, Counselor [...]

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Egypt’s President Denounces Violence Outside Coptic Church

April 9, 2013 Featured News

9/4/13 Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi has condemned violence outside Cairo’s main church that left one person dead and dozens more wounded. Clashes erupted after the funerals of four Coptic Christians at St. Mark’s Cathedral on April 7. Mourners leaving the church fought with local residents. Police fired tear gas to break up the violence. State [...]

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Coptic Church Planning Senior Home on Aldama Street

March 17, 2013 News

David Fonseca - 16/3/13 The 62-unit senior living facility would be accompanied by a new recreation center. Holy Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox Church is seeking permission from the Department of City Planning to build a 62-unit residential development with an adjacent recreational facility on a swath of church-owned land on Aldama Street. According to a notice [...]

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Coptic Church attacked in Libya’s Benghazi: ministry

March 4, 2013 Featured News
Libyan officials have condemned a Thursday attack on a Coptic Christian church in Benghazi. Here, Copts attend a service in the Church of St. Barbera in Cairo, Egypt.

4/3/13 Libyan officials condemn an attack on a Coptic Church that threatened two priests. Libya’s foreign ministry on Sunday expressed concern over an attack on a Coptic Christian church in the eastern city of Benghazi late last week, according to Reuters, citing the country’s LANA news agency. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation’s Sunday [...]

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Egyptian Copts in Libya allegedly detained, tortured following ‘missionising’ claims

March 2, 2013 Featured News
Photos published on Facebook of detained Copts in Libya accused of proselytisation.

Sherry El-Gergawi – 1/3/13 Scores of Egyptian Coptic Christians are detained, abused by Salafists in Benghazi after being accused of proselytising, says Coptic Church source. Activists in Libya on Thursday posted photographs on Facebook allegedly portraying Egyptian Coptic-Christians detained in Libya on charges of proselytising. The activists asserted that the images would also be sent [...]

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Planning Minister refuses Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Melbourne request for Donvale dome planning scheme amendment

February 13, 2013 News

Shaun Campbell, Manningham Leader  13/2/13 THE Coptic Church’s last-ditch bid for a $10 million dome development in Donvale has failed. Planning Minister Matthew Guy has refused a Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Melbourne’s request to amend the planning scheme to allow the sports and function centre to be approved. What would you like to see built [...]

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Current Brotherhood and Egypt not the same as before: Head of London Coptic Church

January 14, 2013 News

Amer Sultan from London – 13/1/13 Father Antonious Thabet openly criticises the Egyptian Islamist group in measured speech at official Christmas function. Reverend Father Antonious Thabet, the parish priest of St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in London, says that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has changed. “The Ikhwan (Muslim Brothers) nowadays are not the same ones of [...]

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Egypt’s Coptic Church Pope Tawadros II advocates for civil and political rights

December 7, 2012 Featured News

BEATRIZ SCHIAVA - 6/12/2012 The new pope of Egypt’s Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II, said in an interview with the private TV station ONTV this Monday that “the constitution should be consensual,” looking for diversity, and should not be excessively religious, undeniably the constitution should protect all Egyptians. President Mohammed Morsi has called for a constitution based in [...]

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Pope Tawadros II assumes leadership of Egypt’s Coptic Church

November 18, 2012 Featured News

Cairo, 18/11/12 Pope Tawadros cried as he assumed the leadership of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church on Sunday morning at the St. Mark Cathedral in Abbasiya in Cairo. The new pope will lead the church, which claims more than 10 million congregants, succeeding late pope Shenouda III who passed away last March after leading the [...]

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A post-election lesson for Americans from Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church

November 9, 2012 Featured News

Brad Hirschfield 8/11/2012 The election is over and now the real work begins. Today is not fundamentally about Republicans and Democrats. It is not about winners and losers. It is about us, the American public and how we will be best served by those in elected office. We endured not only a closely contested election, but one [...]

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Egypt: Politicians, Public Figures Welcome New Pope

November 5, 2012 Featured News

4/11/2012 Several Egyptian politicians, officials and public figures welcomed on Sunday the appointment of Bishop Tawadros as the new Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church. They praised the electoral process of the 118th Coptic Pope, adding that challenging responsibilities await him. Prime Minister Hisham Kandil congratulated on Facebook all Copts for the election of Pope [...]

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A new future for Egypt’s Copts

November 3, 2012 Featured News

By Idris Tawfiq 3/11/2012 Tomorrow a box will be placed on the altar of Saint Mark’s cathedral in Abbasiya containing three pieces of paper. On them will be the names of the three men chosen by a complicated electoral college as eligible to be the next Pope and Patriarch of the Coptic Church. Bishop Raphael, [...]

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Bishop gives details about final stage of Coptic Church’s papal elections

November 2, 2012 Featured News

Ahram Online 1/10/2012 Coptic Orthodox Bishop Paul describes upcoming ‘alter lottery,’ slated for Sunday, by which Egypt’s next Coptic pope will be chosen. At a Thursday press conference, Coptic Orthodox Bishop Paul provided details about the final stage of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s papal elections, which will involve what is known as the ‘alter lottery.’ [...]

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Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox papal election enters penultimate phase

October 29, 2012 Featured News

The five candidates of Papal elections, from Left, Father Pachomios El-Syrian,Father Raphael Ava Mina,Father Seraphim El-Syrian, Bishop Raphael and Bishop Tawadros in Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Azbakeya, Cairo (Photo: courtesy of Cairo Downtown Churches facebook page) Sherry El-Gergawi 29/10/2012 Coptic-Christian electors will cast ballots Monday to select three papal finalists, one of whom [...]

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Changes to Coptic papal selection

October 22, 2012 Featured News

During the election, members of the clergy and lay representatives from dioceses all over the world will select the final three nominees.(Photo by Mohamed Omar) 22/10/2012 Basil El-Dabh A definite timeline has been put in place for the remaining stages of the papal selection process after the Coptic Church moved the date for final selection [...]

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Copts’ flight from Sinai’s Rafah alarms church; rights groups express solidarity

September 30, 2012 Featured News

  30/9/2012 Sherry El-Gergawi Rights groups and Coptic Church call on state to provide security for all Egyptians following departure of Christian families from Rafah amid alleged threats. Attacks on a Coptic-owned shop in the city of Rafah in northern Sinai and the subsequent flight of nine scared Christian families after reportedly receiving death threats [...]

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Placing Coptic Church Funds Under Egyptian State Control

September 3, 2012 Featured News

Jeremy Reynalds 3/9/2012 Demands raised this week by Islamists in the Constituent Assembly, which is drafting the new Egyptian constitution, for placing the Church’s funds under state financial control were categorically rejected by church leaders and Copts at large. According to a story by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), Anba Pakhomious, [...]

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The Coptic Church announces voter list

July 27, 2012 Featured News

Basil El-Dabh 26/7/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church has revealed the list of voters who will select the 118th Pope of Alexandria The Coptic Church has announced that the selection process for the Pope will yield its final results in November, at which point the successor to Pope Shenouda III will be announced. The current field [...]

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Coptic Orthodox Church to point the way to new Pope

July 23, 2012 News

Basil El-Dabh 21/7/2012 The Coptic Church has also announced that it will not attend the traditional yearly Ramadan Iftaar banquet in mourning for the death of Pope Shenouda III. The commission overseeing the election of the new Patriarch of the Coptic Church will disclose the list of voters who will participate in the election of [...]

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President-elect Morsi receives acting pope of Egypt’s Coptic Church

June 29, 2012 Featured News

  Ahram Online 26/6/2012 New Islamist president-elect receives acting head of Coptic Church, says he will not countenance ‘condescension’ to Egypt’s Coptic-Christian community. Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s new Islamist president-elect, received a delegation on Tuesday from Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, including acting pope Anba Bakhomious. During the meeting, held to congratulate Morsi on his recent electoral [...]

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Coptic Church Head in UK Speaks of Hope for Egypt in Wake of Morsi’s Election Win

June 26, 2012 News

By Christian Today 25/6/2012 The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the U.K. has spoken of his hope for positive reform in Egypt after the election of Mohammed Morsi as president. The Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate is Egypt’s first democratically elected president, coming to power 16 months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime. In [...]

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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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Coptic Church not worried by potential Morsy victory

June 20, 2012 Featured News

MENA 18/06/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church has said that it would respect the final results of the presidential election and is not concerned by a potential Muslim Brotherhood victory. Preliminary results have indicated that the Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsy is narrowly leading against former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq. The Presidential Elections Commission plans to announce the [...]

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Century-old trees near Coptic Church survive another day

June 20, 2012 News

BY EVA TEJSZERSKI 19/6/2012 WHEN Doug and Karen Doyle heard that 100-year-old trees at Bexley might get the chop, they were less than impressed. But they said common sense prevailed, after a decision was made to keep them. At its meeting earlier this month, Rockdale Council put residents’ concerns at ease, after it confirmed that [...]

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