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Date of source: Saturday, July 11, 2020
The Archbishop of Sebastia Atallah Hanna [ʿAṭā Allāh Ḥannā] commented on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decree which paved the way for the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) to be converted into a mosque. The Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem criticised this...
Date of source: Saturday, June 13, 2020
Many of the Coptic and secular leadership in Alexandria expressed their anger at a magazine that had placed Father Rāfāʾ īl, Bishop of central Cairo churches, on a picture with the former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muḥammad Badīʿ. The leaders considered this act an insult and an unacceptable...
Date of source: Thursday, August 6, 2020
Around 300 Christians performed “Thursday Worship” at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria on the fourth day of carrying out the decision to gradually reopen churches. Churches have been closed since March 21st, when Prime Minister Muṣṭafā Madbūlī issued the decision to close churches...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 22, 2020
The ruling that the Supreme Administrative Court issued in the appeal to not allow the Episcopal Church to split from the Evangelical Church has not settled the ongoing religious and organizational dispute between the two sides regarding the latter’s subordinance to the Protestant Community and its...
Date of source: Friday, May 15, 2020
The Orthodox Copts commemorated the return of the remnants of the 20 Coptic martyrs who were killed by members of ISIS in Libya in 2015. Prayers for the martyrs were held at home to limit the spread of Coronavirus.
Date of source: Sunday, February 16, 2020
On February 15, the churches of Minya and Alexandria commemorated the “martyrs” killed five years ago in Libya by Dāʿish (the Islamic State) in 2015, after the Holy Synod dedicated February 15 as an annual day to celebrate “the feast of the new martyrs.”
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2019
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, ordained 23 new priests on Saturday to serve the missionary providence of St. Mark in Egypt and abroad.
Date of source: Thursday, July 25, 2019
Dr. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Qunṣuwa, Governor of Alexandria, and the leaders of the Coptic denominations participated in the funeral of Bishop ʿĀdil Zakī, Apostolic Vicar of Alexandria for the Catholics of the Latin rite in Egypt, which took place at St. Catherine's Church in Alexandria on Wednesday evening.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, presided over mass at the Headquarters of the Church of the Archangel Michael [al-Malāk Mikhāʾīl] in Bayt al-Karma in King Maryūt, west of Alexandria on Wednesday evening. He was joined by 7 other general bishops, who...
Date of source: Sunday, August 4, 2019
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark's See, congratulated the priests and people of Mār Jirjis Church in Sīdī Bishr area, east of Alexandria, during the celebration organized by the Church on Monday, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first Divine Liturgy...
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