Coptic Pope Shenouda III
Pope Shenouda flies to US for checkups
Egypt
January 8, 2011
Pope Shenouda flies to US for checkups
Pope Shenouda III flew to the US Saturday morning on a private aircraft owned by Coptic businessman Naguib Sawiris to…
Pope Shenouda: Alexandria church bombing ‘was not individual act’
Egypt
January 6, 2011
Pope Shenouda: Alexandria church bombing ‘was not individual act’
Coptic Pope Shenouda III on Thursday ruled out the possibility that the New Year's Eve bombing of a church in…
Year Ender: Regime-church tensions likely to intensify
Egypt
December 29, 2010
Year Ender: Regime-church tensions likely to intensify
Although attacks on Christian property and places of worship do not represent a new phenomenon in Egypt’s recent history, experts…
Egypt’s leadership vows to release all Copts before Christmas, church officials say
Egypt
December 19, 2010
Egypt’s leadership vows to release all Copts before Christmas, church officials say
Egypt's ruling political leadership has vowed to release the 84 Copts that remain in detention following 24 November clashes with…
Release ordered for 70 Copts held in Giza riots
Egypt
December 13, 2010
Release ordered for 70 Copts held in Giza riots
Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud has ordered the release of 70 Coptic Christians who were detained along with dozens of…
Church TV channel airs film attacking Jehovah Witnesses
Egypt
December 13, 2010
Church TV channel airs film attacking Jehovah Witnesses
On Saturday the official Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church satellite TV channel Aghapy showed a movie entitled “Young Foxes,” which Jehova's…
Pope Shenouda retreats to protest imprisonment of Omraneyya Copts
Egypt
December 11, 2010
Pope Shenouda retreats to protest imprisonment of Omraneyya Copts
Coptic Pope Shenouda III has decided to retreat to the Saint Bishoy Monastery in Wadi el-Natroun, said an informed source…
Coptic Church accepts Al-Ahram front page apology
Egypt
December 8, 2010
Coptic Church accepts Al-Ahram front page apology
Coptic Bishop Sergius said the Church was satisfied with Al-Ahram Editor in Chief Osama Saraya’s apology, published by the daily…
Al-Ahram commentary on Pope Shenouda riles Egypt’s Coptic Christians
Egypt
December 8, 2010
Al-Ahram commentary on Pope Shenouda riles Egypt’s Coptic Christians
Egyptian Coptic activists filed a complaint on Wednesday with the General Persecution Office accusing state-run daily Al-Ahram of defaming Pope…
Egyptian court upholds verdict allowing divorced Copts to remarry
Egypt
November 30, 2010
Egyptian court upholds verdict allowing divorced Copts to remarry
Egypt's Court of Administrative Justice on Tuesday upheld an earlier judicial ruling allowing Coptic Christian divorcees to remarry.