Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Copts offered prayers and petitions for the return of Christina Karīm ʿAzīz, a 20-year-old Christian girl who has vanished for almost two weeks in the Asyūṭ governorate’s al-Fatḥ town.
Date of source: Friday, February 26, 2016
His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Holy See of St. Mark inaugurated on Sunday the third seminar of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Titled “Church Services and The Coptic Family”, the seminar reviewed a number of papers, including the personal...
Date of source: Monday, September 10, 2012
Security apparatuses in Asyut succeeded in containing clashes in 'Izbit al-Shaykh Suwayf of al-Fath Township, Asyut Governorate after clashes erupted between Copts and Muslims about who has the priority of irrigation. Clashes left one Muslim dead.
Dr. Yahyá Kishk, Governor of Asyut, called Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
Celebration of the festival of St. George at Bisari in the vicinity of Assiut on the fifth Sunday of Lent.
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2003
On Friday September 19, 2003 at 6.00 a.m. a large number of security officers and soldiers had closed the three roads leading to the Coptic Orthodox church of the Martyr George in a village called Besri on the outskirts of the city of Assiut. AWR received from different sources a report of the US...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2005
Most of the decisions of the past century in Assiut have involved only the demolition, re-construction or restoration of historical Coptic churches, but now a new church is to be built.