Date of source: Thursday, March 9, 2017
The discussion surrounding Copts of the diaspora is back again, this time with negative connotations out of a fear of this community organizing demonstrations during President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī’s expected visit to the United States within the next few weeks. In fact, some media outlets have...
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2017
This was the title of the banners that were to be seen all over as ‘pilgrims’ arrived to the Air Defense Stadium for the Mass with Pope Francis.
Date of source: Thursday, March 9, 2017
Monk Tīmūthāwus Āfā Mīnā, responsible for the al-Ṭāḥūna Church of Pope Kīrillus in the area of al-Zahrāʾ,Miṣr al-Qadīma, said that March is the month for visiting al-Ṭāḥūna to celebrate the day of his excellence Pope Kīrillus on March, 9th of every year.
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
Father Sharīf Nāshif, the assisting priest at the Saint Kyrillos for Roman Catholics, left for northern Sudan to lead the Christmas Mass at the Lady of Annunciation Church in Khartoum.
In an interview with Rose al-Yūsuf magazine, he said that the Christians of northern Sudan refuse to immigrate...
Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2012
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III is delivering his weekly sermon on Wednesday (January 25) through videoconference for the first time from Cleveland Clinic in the U.S. state of Ohio, where he is on a treatment trip. [Ashraf Sādiq, al-Ahrām, Jan. 22, p. 4]
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
A large number of activists and representatives of political movements on Thursday (January 19), started a march demanding the release of blogger Michael Nabīl, chanting slogans rejecting that civilians be brought before military courts.
Nabīl's father, who participated in the march that started...
Date of source: Saturday, January 21, 2012
The Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo approved by majority during its annual meeting on Friday (January 20) on the ordaining of women as priests for the first time in the history of all Christian denomination in Egypt.
Pastor Rif'at Fikrī, Chairman of the ETSC's information committee, said...
Date of source: Friday, January 6, 2012
Meanwhile, Orthodox churches in Egypt are holding the Coptic Christmas Mass today amidst tight security measures as the Mass will be led by Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III at the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah.
The Mass will be attended by delegations representing...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2012
However, the Maspero Youth Union announced it will boycott the Christmas celebrations at the cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah in reactions to the church’s invitations for the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafīs and leaders of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to attend the...
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2016
Researcher Silvana George ʿAttallah, reports that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the forerunner of the Christian world, was built by Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD in the basilica style.