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AP Photos: Egypt's Copts choose new pope

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 11:19 AM PST

Bishop Tawadros, 60, soon to be Pope Tawadros II greets well-wishers, not shown, after being named the 118th Coptic Pope in the Wadi Natrun Monastery complex northwest of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Egypt's ancient Coptic Christian church named a new pope on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 to spiritually guide the community through a time when many fear for their future with the rise of Islamists to power and deterioration in police powers after last year's uprising. (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUTA 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

Members of the Alliance VITA association demonstrate against the government's draft law to legalise marriage and adoption for same-sex couples in LyonPARIS (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

Egyptian caretaker of the Coptic Church, interim Pope Bakhomious holds a piece of paper with the name of Bishop Tawadros written on it in CairoCAIRO (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

Acting Coptic Pope Pachomios, center, displays the name of 60-year-old Bishop Tawadros, soon to be Pope Tawadros II, during the papal election ceremony at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Egypt's ancient Coptic Christian church chose a new pope in an elaborate Sunday ceremony meant to invoke the will of God, in which a blindfolded boy drew the name of the next patriarch from a crystal chalice. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)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

Egyptian Coptic priests line up to vote in an election for a new pope at the Saint Mark's Coptic Cathedral in CairoCAIRO (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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