Fifty Coptic figures will convene Tuesday to discuss Coptic representation in the constituent assembly that will write the new constitution, sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
The sources, which asked to remain anonymous, said the meeting aims at (...)
The three Christian denominations of Egypt have welcomed recent statements of Muslim Brotherhood General Guide Mohamed Badie, in which he reassured Christians that their interests will be safeguarded.
“It is a good step towards positive integration (...)
Military Chief of Staff Sami Anan met with a delegation of Coptic bishops on Wednesday at the Defense Ministry to discuss the community's problems.
“The military council holds regular meetings with us to discuss certain problems we face,” said (...)
The head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III, has decided to cancel celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of his ascension to the post, a church source told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
The pope canceled the event, scheduled for 14 (...)
For every 50 families that belong to the same religious denomination, each should have the right to their own place of worship, an Egyptian government committee has declared.
The National Justice Committee submitted six recommendations to the (...)
The head of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, met with Coptic Pope Shenouda III at the military council's headquarters in Cairo on Monday.
A church source, who spoke to Al-Masry Al-Youm on condition of anonymity, said (...)
Members of the Coptic-led Maspero Youth Union are divided over internationalizing awareness of the violence that broke out outside the state TV building, known as Maspero, on 9 October and claimed the lives of 27, mostly Copts.
Video footage of the (...)
Coptic youth and political movements wore black and demonstrated on Monday evening in Shubra, a northern district of Cairo, to pay tribute to those who died at Maspero on 9 October.
Protestors chanted slogans against the head of the ruling military (...)
The deputy chairman of Egypt's ruling military council, Sami Anan, will meet five senior Coptic clerics on Wednesday to discuss the clashes that broke out at a Coptic protest on 9 October, informed sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Twenty-seven (...)
Egypt's information minister met on Monday morning with Pope Shenouda III and vowed to investigate state TV coverage of the clashes during a Coptic protest outside the state TV building on 9 October.
During the meeting at St. Mark's Cathedral in (...)
Coptic activist Michael Mounir has submitted an application to the Party Affairs Committee to form the Hayat Party.
"It took us only six weeks to meet all the conditions [for recognition],” Mounir said. “This makes us one of the parties that were (...)
Hundreds of activists and young Copts organized a silent vigil on Sunday at Abbasseya Cathedral in Cairo, mourning the 27 civilians who died as a result of violence at a protest outside the state TV building on 9 October.
Egypt's armed forces face (...)
Pope Shenouda III has demanded the release of all those detained during the violence that took place outside the Maspero building, said a source from the Coptic Orthodox Church.
The demand came during Shenouda's Sunday morning meeting at Saint (...)
The civilian death toll in the violence at Maspero on 9 October has mounted to 27, as Magdy Fahim Mosaad died Sunday at Salaam International Hospital in Cairo.
One military soldier reportedly died as well.
Sources at the hospital said the victim (...)
Justice Minister Mohamed al-Guindy held a meeting with the ministry's legislative committee on Tuesday to discuss the unified draft law on places of worship.
The Coptic Orthodox Church requested that the committee consider the amendments it has (...)
Coptic organizations abroad have called for "a week of anger" following violence at a Coptic protest on Sunday in central Cairo.
Twenty-four people died and 317 were injured outside Egypt's state TV building, Maspero, after a march by Coptic (...)
A number of Coptic activist groups have declared their intention to stage a march on Sunday from 5 to 8pm, moving from the mostly Christian district of Shubra to the state television building, known as Maspiro, calling for a stop to abuses against (...)
Military police on Wednesday morning forcibly evacuated hundreds of Coptic demonstrators from the area outside the state TV building in Maspero, where they were protesting an assault on an Aswan church.
The Maspero Youth Union and Free Copts, both (...)
A group of Coptic activists on Tuesday accused the cabinet and the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) of ignoring Coptic rights.
The Maspiro Youth Union blamed interim Prime Minister Essam Sharaf for “violence suffered by (...)
Thousands of Copts staged a demonstration Saturday to condemn the attack on a church in Aswan Governorate in southern Egypt, which took place following clashes between Coptic and Muslim villagers.
Copts Without Restrictions, the Maspiro Youth Union, (...)
Modern-day Jews are not God's chosen people, said Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, in a statement Wednesday evening.
"Do not believe their claims that they are God's chosen people, because it is not true," Shenouda said (...)
Nearly 93,000 Coptic Christians have left Egypt since 19 March, a report by an Egypt-based Coptic NGO has said.
The number may increase to 250,000 by the end of 2011, according to Naguib Gabriel, the head of the Egyptian Federation of Human Rights, (...)
The Coptic Orthodox Church's Clerical Council for Personal Affairs resumed on Tuesday examining requests for divorce submitted by Copts, after a hiatus of two months while Copts held demonstrations demanding the right to divorce and remarry.
Pope (...)
The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt has received more than 120 individual notices from Coptic Christians informing the Church that they have permanently left the denomination, according to Church sources on Sunday.
According to one source, those (...)
The sixth Egyptian border guard shot by Israeli forces on 18 August died in a military hospital in Cairo on Saturday morning.
Medical sources said the sixth victim, conscript Emad Abdel Malak, died after several surgical operations failed to save (...)