Posts Tagged ‘Coptic’

Neighbours ok with church: Rugby club complains Comments 0

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
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The Christchurch Rugby Club is complaining that privately owned land adjacent to its land is no longer available to it. The club, who currently needs to access to its neighbour’s land to turn its park lights on and off say the private land is part of the club’s history and it will cost the club Read more

New president of Egypt meets Christian leaders Comments 0

Friday, June 29th, 2012
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Egypt’s newly-elected Islamic President Mohammed Morsi has met with Catholic leaders and assured them that all Egyptians will be protected by the administration. The meeting came one day after he met the interim leader of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, which makes up the vast majority of the roughly 8 million Christians in the country. The Read more

Peaceful coexistence in Egypt threatened Comments 0

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
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Many Muslims in Egypt are proud of their country’s heritage of religious pluralism. “So headlines like “Islam’s war on the Cross”, as in one British newspaper this week, fail to do justice to the complexities – and to the goodwill – on both sides,” according to the editorial in the London Tablet.  ”Egypt has long been an Read more

Christian demonstrators killed in Egypt Comments 1

Friday, October 14th, 2011
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The Catholic Church in Egypt has implicated the regime in the deaths of 25 people, most of them Copts, in the worst outbreak of violence since the fall of Mubarak. The Church claimed that the army and police “used” a mob of street fighters armed with rifles, sticks, stones and swords who it says carried Read more