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Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2024
Counselor Munṣif Najīb Sulaymān, the representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the Personal Status Law Panel, revealed that the five Christian denominations in Egypt have reached a consensus on the first law regulating the personal status affairs of Christian families.
Date of source: Friday, December 20, 2024
Yūsuf Ṭalʿat, a legal advisor for the Coptic Evangelical community in Egypt, described the new personal status law for Christians as a series of historical rights for Christian citizens. He added that the law consists of 160 articles divided into 10 chapters.
“The new personal status law for...
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2024
Anbā Kyrillos was born Sīdārūs Marqus Jirjis in al-Naghāmīsh village of al-Balyanā town in the Sūhāj province of southern Egypt, but his year of birth is not accurately known. He was brought up by his father to be a devout Christian, and memorized the church hymns and psalms from a young age, and...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Reverend Andrew C. Wheeler is a specialist on Christianity in Sudan, African church history, and the modern history of Sudan. He is the author of Day of Contentment, Day of Devastation: The History of the Sudanese Church across 2,000 Years and Bombs, Ruins, and Honey: Journeys of the Spirit with...
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church welcomed Bishop Kōnstāntayn of the Russian Orthodox Church in Egypt and Africa at the Papal Residence in Cairo on Sunday.
Date of source: Thursday, February 8, 2024
Tīmōthāūs Mattā al-Khūrī, Patriarchal Vicar of the Syrian Orthodox Church and Archbishop of Ḥomṣ, Ḥamā, Ṭarṭōs and the area which surrounds it, visited Pope Tawāḍrūs of the Coptic Orthodox Church on Thursday (Feb. 8) at the Papal Residence of the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-...
Date of source: Monday, December 4, 2023
Since its establishment in 1974, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) has been preoccupied with the Palestinian cause, and not a single one of its meetings has passed without addressing this issue. Over the course of half a century, the council has held many meetings and seminars that have...
Date of source: Thursday, October 26, 2023
The Egypt Council of Churches (ECC) priests and pastors committee concluded its 8th annual conference at the Anaphora House on October 24, where 80 priests from the Orthodox, Anglican, Catholic, and Episcopal churches from several Egyptian provinces attended.
Date of source: Friday, July 28, 2023
On Friday, Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church met with priests and servants of the churches in the Gulf states of the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2023
During his weekly Wednesday sermon, Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church expressed his content over signs the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) crisis will be defused after those who had separated from the church repented and returned to their mother church.
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