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• AP Photos: Egypt's Copts choose new pope
• French left hits back at Church over same-sex marriage
• In Islamist-led Egypt, Coptic Christians name new pope
• New pope named for Egypt's embattled Coptic Christians
• Factbox: Egypt's Copts choose Bishop Tawadros as new pope
• Egypt's Coptic church chooses new pope
• Egypt's Coptic church names new pope
• Egypt's Coptic Christian church names Bishop Tawadros as new pope
• Egypt's Coptic church prepares to choose pope

AP Photos: Egypt's Copts choose new pope Posted: 04 Nov 2012 11:19 AM PST A blindfolded child reached into a crystal chalice and pulled out a slip of paper — and Egypt's Coptic Christians had a new pope.

French left hits back at Church over same-sex marriage Posted: 04 Nov 2012 10:12 AM PST PARIS (Reuters) - France's governing Socialist Party hit back hard at the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday for campaigning against its plan to legalize same-sex marriage, heralding a bruising debate over the issue. Paris Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois spoke against the proposed law on Saturday and encouraged Catholics to write to their elected officials and take to the streets in protest against the reform due to be voted on by mid-2013. ...

In Islamist-led Egypt, Coptic Christians name new pope Posted: 04 Nov 2012 09:03 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church chose a new pope, Tawadros II, in a sumptuous service on Sunday and Christians hope he will lead them through an Islamist-dominated landscape and protect what is the Middle East's biggest Christian community. Christians, who make up about a tenth of Egypt's 83 million population, worry about political gains made by Islamists since Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year. Radical Islamists have been blamed for attacks on churches several times since, but Copts have long complained of discrimination in Muslim-majority Egypt. ...

New pope named for Egypt's embattled Coptic Christians Posted: 04 Nov 2012 08:58 AM PST Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church chose a new pope today, putting a new leader at the helm of Egypt's largest Christian sect at a time of increasing difficulty for the minority.

Factbox: Egypt's Copts choose Bishop Tawadros as new pope Posted: 04 Nov 2012 05:27 AM PST (Reuters) - Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church chose Bishop Tawadros as its new pope on Sunday, in the first election in more than 40 years, after Pope Shenouda died last March. Here is a look at the church. * Before the Arab conquest in the 7th century, Christianity was widespread in Egypt and people identified themselves and their language in Greek as Aigyptios, which was westernized to become Copt. When Egyptian Muslims stopped using that term, it became the name of the native Egyptian Christian minority. * Copts make up about 10 percent of Egypt's 83 million population. ...

Egypt's Coptic church chooses new pope Posted: 04 Nov 2012 04:56 AM PST Egypt's ancient Coptic Christian church named a new pope on Sunday, chosen in an elaborate ceremony where a blindfolded boy drew the name of the next patriarch from a crystal chalice.

Egypt's Coptic church names new pope Posted: 04 Nov 2012 01:45 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - The Coptic Orthodox church chose a new pope, Bishop Tawadros, on Sunday to lead the Middle East's biggest Christian community after dramatic political changes in Egypt swept Islamists to power. In a sumptuous ritual filled with prayer, chants and incense at Abbasiya cathedral in Cairo, the 60-year-old bishop's name was picked by a blindfolded child from a glass bowl in which the names of two other candidates had also been placed. Tawadros replaces Pope Shenouda III who led the church for four decades until he died in March aged 88. ...

Egypt's Coptic Christian church names Bishop Tawadros as new pope Posted: 04 Nov 2012 01:41 AM PST Egypt's Coptic Christian church names Bishop Tawadros as new pope.

Egypt's Coptic church prepares to choose pope Posted: 04 Nov 2012 01:56 AM PDT Egypt's ancient Coptic Christian church will pick a new pope in an elaborate Sunday ceremony in which a blindfolded altar boy will draw from a crystal chalice holding the names of three senior clerics, one of whom will replace the charismatic patriarch who led the church for 40 years.

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