(1) Amid repeated acts of violence against revolutionary demonstrators, and the targeting of Coptic Christians, trade unionists and women who dared to assert their rights to presence in public space, it became clear that despite Mubarak’s departure the ancien regime was fighting to preserve as much of his state as possible, with only the flimsiest façade of formal democracy.
(2) In 1949, he graduated from the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary.
(3) I then left the scene and went to a nearby hospital, the Coptic hospital, where we were told that most of the bodies of those killed had been sent, and we were given access to the morgue of the hospital and we counted 17 bodies.
(4) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
(5) More specifically, the violence is very bad news for Egypt's beleaguered Coptic minority – the ancient Christian community that makes up between 10 and 15% of a population of 82 million, and is by far the largest Christian community in the region.
(6) Maikel Nabil Sanad, a 26-year-old Coptic Christian who became a cause celebre for activists opposed to the post-Mubarak military government, was among almost 2,000 prisoners convicted by military tribunals over the past year who are set to be released after an announcement by Egypt's de facto leader, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
(7) Internal Coptic disputes went public and Shenouda seemed to lose his celebrated grip over his community.
(8) Amnesty International says supporters of Morsi have carried out sectarian attacks on Coptic Christians.
(9) Up to 100 Christian families have fled since July, with dozens of Coptic properties – including three of Delga's five churches – torched and looted.
(10) The second important cultural element in western Ethiopia is the orthodox Coptic church, which usually looks upon mental disorders as possession by evil spirits, which are thus treated by specially gifted priests and monks by praying and giving holy water or eventually exhortation.
(11) We are working with the Coptic church, the Syrian church, people who very strongly support marriage,” he said.
(12) Morsi made significant promises when he came into office, including a vow to appoint women and Coptic Christians to cabinet-level positions.
(13) Coptic groups have long complained that laws regulating houses of worship are discriminatory.
(14) Addressing the killing of Mina Daniel – a Coptic protester who died during the 9 October demonstration but has since been accused, like Abd El Fattah, of helping to instigate the violence, he says: "They [the military] must be the first who murder a man and not only walk in his funeral but spit on his body and accuse it of a crime."
(15) Shenouda sought to contain Christians' anger and gave strong support to Mubarak's government, while avoiding pressing Coptic demands too vocally in public to prevent a backlash from Muslim conservatives.
(16) Tearful and wearing black, tens of thousands of Egyptian Coptic Christians joined a funeral mass for their patriarch, Pope Shenouda III, led by senior clerics at the main cathedral in Cairo.
(17) Shielded from Europe, Copts developed distinctive customs such as fasting, monasticism and the usage of liturgical Coptic, derived from the Pharaonic language of ancient Egypt.
(18) Shortly before his detention, Abdel Fattah published an account of the attack on the Coptic Christians in the independent paper al-Shorouk.
(19) You’ve got to rebuild trust that has been badly broken.” Thousands of mourners gathered on Monday at the Coptic church in al-Our village south of Cairo, home to 13 of 21 Egyptians beheaded by Isis.
(20) His comments on Jews often sailed close to crass antisemitism and he rebuffed calls to soften Coptic strictures on divorce.
Haikal
Definition:
(n.) The central chapel of the three forming the sanctuary of a Coptic church. It contains the high altar, and is usually closed by an embroidered curtain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Asn36Ala and Asn98Ala mutations reduce the transesterification rates of GpA, GpC and GpU considerably whereas they have virtually no effect on the transesterification kinetics of the synthetic substrate guanosine 3'-(methyl phosphate) (GpMe) (in which the leaving nucleoside is replaced by methanol), indicating that the Asn36 and Asn98 side chains are part of the RNase T1 subsite [Steyaert, J., Haikal, A. F., Wyns, L. & Stanssens, P. (1991) Biochemistry 30, 8666-8670].