Tag: coptic church
Egypt Pope, al-Azhar Imam encourage Egyptians to Vote
By Mohamed Abdel Salam 19/3/2011 CAIRO: Head of the Egyptian Coptic Christian Church, Pope Shenouda II, returned to Cairo on Friaday after a 19-day medical ... Read More
Military rebuilding Coptic Church destroyed by Muslims
03/14/2011 The building will rise in the same place and be as big as the old one, this despite opposition from Muslim radicals. Cairo (AsiaNews) ... Read More
Monastery says six injured in army’s removal of its illegal Wall
24/02/2011 Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has denounced the army’s removal of a wall enclosing a desert monastery, which accused the army of “excessive violence” that ... Read More
H.H. Pope Shenouda issues statement on the Egyptian Revolution
15/2/2011 On 15 February 2011 Pope Shenouda met with a small committee of the Holy Synod that released the following statement: The Coptic Church praises ... Read More
Egypt’s uprising stirs fears of persecution of minority Coptic Christians
Nabila Rizkalla and other parishioners at St. Read More
Coptic Christians Worry About Future Without Mubarak
By MARC CHAMPION 1/2/2011 ALEXANDRIA, Egypt—Like the protesters who have flooded the streets of Egypt in the past week, the country’s large minority of Coptic ... Read More
Egypt interior minister: Alexandria Church bomber is dead
Ahram Online 25/1/2011 Alexandria church bomber ‘unidentified’ but he is not ‘Egyptian at all’, the Egyptian interior minister tells Al-Ahram In a rare and lengthy ... Read More
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW to COPTIC POPE SHENOUDA III
BARTHOLOMEW, by the mercy of God, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Your Beatitude Shenouda III, Pope and Patriarch of the Coptic Church of ... Read More
Arab press angered by Coptic Church Blast
3/1/2011 The Egyptian press has reacted angrily to the suicide bombing that targeted a Coptic church in Alexandria on New Year’s Day, with several papers ... Read More
Who are Egypt’s Copts, and the Middle East’s other Christian populations?
Recent attacks against Christians in Egypt and Iraq have drawn attention to the Middle East’s Christian populations, which are dwindling as Christians flee violence, political ... Read More