Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 5, 2013
According to sources of the papal headquarters, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II is planning a visit to the United States of America and Canada for the opening of new Coptic Churches there. This will be the first trip abroad since his consecration last November.
The sources added that expatriate...
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 2, 2013
On Friday, February 1, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI ratified the election of Louis Raphaël I Sako as the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and the Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, successor of Cardinal Mar Emmanuel III Delly who became the first Iraqi Cardinal in 2007.
Sākū had been Chaldean...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 29, 2013
Al-Misrīyūn Islamist newspaper writes that Church sources had allegedly disclosed that Father Marqus ’Azīz, parish priest of the Hanging Church in Old Cairo is the spiritual father of the “anarchic” Black Bloc Group. Under the code name “the earthly soldiers of Christ”, Father ’Azīz initiates the...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 28, 2013
The three major Coptic Churches of Egypt vehemently condemned declarations that attempt to drag the Churches into the new phenomenon of violence that emerged in Egypt lately and of allegedly providing and enhancing the Black Bloc “militias”-so the accusations-, describing such declarations as “...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 27, 2013
In accordance with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI, the Coptic Catholic Synod elected the new Patriarch as successor of Cardinal Antonius Najīb. Due to his health condition, the 77-years-old former Cardinal has resigned.
His Successor Ibrāhīm Ishāq Sidrāk was born on August 19, 1955 in Banī...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 10, 2013
Days after the bombing of a service building annexed to the Coptic Church in the city of Misrata in Libya, Bishop Pachomius of Al-Beheira and surrounding cities, headed to Libya Tuesday, January 8, after the Coptic Christmas celebrations. His Grace will visit the Church of Misrata, which is under...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 15, 2013
An article in the English The Telegraph on Jan. 13 said that the number of Coptic Churches in the United States has grown from four churches to 200 in 40 years. There are so many Coptic refugees from Egypt fleeing, if they can, to the United States that some Coptic Churches have had to be extended...
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 17, 2012 to الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 17, 2018
Sa'd al-Husaynī, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (JFP) executive office, said the era of the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) is dead for good and will never come back to life, asserting that there is no anti-Copt position by the Brotherhood.
Husaynī, during...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 3, 2013
Last Saturday, December 30, hundreds of Copts attended the funeral service of Ashraf Sāmī ‘Adlī, the 26-year-old killed in the bombing attack on Saint Mary’s and Saint George’s Coptic Orthodox Church of Misrata city, Libya. Bishop Pachomius led the funeral mass; Bishop Samuel and a large number of...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 3, 2013
This Christmas, enhanced security measures have been put in place at churches in Egypt, including the installation of additional security barricades and special guards, after 3 Palestinians pretended they were Copts, trying to enter the Church in 6th of October City during New Year Mass (December...