Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 7, 2011
Archpriest Salīb of Saint George Church in al-Mārīnāb village of Idfū city, Aswan, said that the church contacted the Aswan military ruler after the crisis got worse.
Extremists had sealed off the village on the morning of September 7, 2011 and closed entrances and exits to prevent Christians from...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 12, 2007
The critical health condition of Pope Shenouda aroused arguments about his expected successor. While a group of laymen calls for a new law to be established for the papal elections, the church expresses its discontentment towards what it considers to be the laymen’s interference in church’s affairs...
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 21, 2007
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman writes in response to Tarek Heggy’s article entitled, ‘If I were a Copt.’ He writes from the perspective of a Muslim citizen, and stresses the issues that he believes are of significance and require attention.
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 1, 2006 to الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 7, 2006
The Coptic community wonders who will succeed Pope
Shenouda after illness strikes him?
Although regulations stipulating the transfer of church power will give
bishops, monks and priests the opportunity
to stand for elections, elections are now confined only to
general bishops.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 5, 2006
An Orthodox church has permitted a woman the right to remarry and is accused of
hiding her
divorce from her husband.
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 30, 2006
The author is reviewing the memories of Archbishop Hidrā of Aswān about the construction of the cathedral there and the solidarity shown by Muslim partners at the levels of both officials, including President Mubārak and Governor Samīr Yousuf, and people like Umm Muhammad who donated half her...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 15, 2006
The author writes on the program of the visit of Pope Sheouda III to Aswan, where he opened a new Coptic church and laid the foundation stone of the building of Aswan Coptic Bishopric.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 29, 2006
Victor Salama writes a report on the sectarian attacks in al-‘Udaysāt, Luxor, resulting in the deaths of two Christians.
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 4, 1999
[Note: The same news was published in all Egyptian newspapers of that day.]
On the morning of June 3, President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak received the Grand Imam Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi the Sheikh Al-Azhar, and 19 prominent muslim clerics at the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis yesterday morning...