CAIRO – 16 May 2022: Egypt hosts for the first time the works of the General Assembly of the Middle East Council of Churches in its twelfth session Monday. The assembly is set to discuss all the issues of the Christians of the Middle East region, their...اقرأ المزيد
CAIRO – 23 March 2022: Egyptian churches witnessed in “breakthrough” after the issuance of the law on building churches in 2016, said the spokesperson of the Coptic Orthodox Church in a Tuesday report. A total of 1,882 churches and affiliated buildings...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s cabinet headed by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli announced on Sunday legalizing the status of 76 churches and service buildings, bringing the total number of churches and affiliated buildings that have so far been licensed by the committee...اقرأ المزيد
The Standing Committee of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church held a video conference Saturday morning, and decided, under the chairmanship of his Holiness Pope Tawadros II, to postpone re-opening churches in Cairo and Alexandria for two weeks...اقرأ المزيد
New 156 churches and church-affiliated service buildings were announced to be legalized on March 5; the total number of legalized churches amounts to 783. The committee concerned with legalizing unlicensed churches, headed by Prime minster Mostafa Madbouly,...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s Ministry of Housing has issued decisions to allocate lands to establish 37 churches in various new cities since 2014, Walid Abbas, assistant housing minister revealed. In an interview with Egypt Today, Abbas said that the government’s New...اقرأ المزيد
A committee headed by Prime Minister and Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly approved the legalization of 168 churches and buildings, oficially legalizing 151, and requiring documents for the remaining 17 to be fully legalized. In a meeting attended by...اقرأ المزيد
An atmosphere of joy prevailed in Coptic communities across Egypt on Wednesday, with the announcement of legalization for 120 churches and church-affiliated service buildings, across 20 governorates. In total, licenses have been granted to 106 Orthodox...اقرأ المزيد
The Egyptian cabinet has approved the licensing of 76 churches and 44 affiliated buildings per a 2016 law in a major wave of legalization of Christian venues. Lawyers of the churches requested licenses for the 120 religious buildings after the law was...اقرأ المزيد
During the Vatican delegation’s visit last month, controversial news spread on an agreement signed by Vatican and Saudi Arabia to build churches on its lands, Hani Bakhoum the spokesperson of the Catholic Church of Egypt, issued an official statement...اقرأ المزيد