Date of source: Sunday, September 8, 2019
A number of people interested in the history and heritage of the town of al-Quṣayr along the Red Sea have launched a campaign to include the smallest church in Egypt on a list of Coptic antiquities and save it from disrepair. The calls come nearly 103 years after the church's construction by...
Date of source: Saturday, October 5, 2019
Human rights activist and member of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, Mīnā Thābit, uncovered that the Egyptian national security apparatus demanded a church to remove a marble plaque, commemorating the lives of those lost in front of the Maspero Television building in 2011. The...
Date of source: Sunday, September 29, 2019
After returning from the United States on a several-week visit during which he met with a number of decision-makers in the US State Department, the Rev. Dr. Andrea Zaki, head of the Evangelical community, affirmed that the positive changes taking place in Egypt have positively affected Egypt's...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 28, 2019
v. Fr. Lūqā Asʿad, bishop of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Rashīd, Buḥayra governorate, has called on the Supreme Constitutional Court to decide on the lawsuit filed by the church acting on behalf of Pope Tawādrūs II, Bishop Bākhūmiyyūs, bishop of Buḥayra, Maṭrūḥ, and the five western cities,...
Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2019
For the first time in years we had one of our student interns questioned and detained by Egyptian police for one day which has resulted in questions from a number of our relations. It all turned out to be a very unfortunate misunderstanding, but it nevertheless was very unpleasant for our student....
Date of source: Saturday, August 24, 2019
In the context of the recent Sudanese revolution and civil transformations, this article will follow the systematic persecution of Christians in Sudan.
Instances of persecution of Christians in Sudan are generally isolated and temporary, yet have taken on a systematic nature, especially since...
Date of source: Monday, July 29, 2019
The English magazine ‘The National’ has highlighted in an article details of the construction of the Virgin Mary and Saint Simon [Samʿān] the Tanner Cathedral. This cathedral, among other churches built on Muqaṭam mountain, was constructed from part of the mountain itself over a period of 20 years.
Date of source: Friday, July 12, 2019
Bishop Maqār, the bishop of Sharqiyya and 10th of Ramadan City, said that al-Laqqān is the service until the washing of the legs, which is the case for washing the inner heart.
Date of source: Thursday, July 11, 2019
The Conference of Specialized Studies of the Orthodox Creed under the patronage of His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, will be held in cooperation with the Diocese of Youth from the 15th to the 19th of July at the House of St. Mark in...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 10, 2019
His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria, Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, delivered his weekly sermon at the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Bishoy in St Mark's Cathedral in ‘Abbāssiyya.