Category: ALEXANDRIA

St.Mary Icon Weeping Holy Oil at St.Mary Coptic Orthodox Church, Ain Shams-Cairo Egypt

obl- December 20, 2011

Fr. Youhanna Fayz Special Courtesy: Antonios Ramzi 21/12/2011 +God has a glory in His saints, is declare that God does not leave his sons in ... Read More

FEATURE-Egypt Christians in two minds over Islamist gains

OCP- December 10, 2011

By Yasmine Saleh 7/12/2011 * Egypt’s top Islamist party sends mixed messages * Large Christian minority worried about its fate CAIRO, Dec 7 (Reuters) – ... Read More

HOLY GREAT MARTYR CATHERINE

OCP- December 10, 2011

Moldovan Church 7/12/2011 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into ... Read More

The Ethiopians living on the roof

OCP- December 10, 2011

By Christopher Howse 2/12/2011 Sacred mysteries: An ancient African monastery is perched above the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. I went to see the Ethiopians on ... Read More

Egypt’s Coptic Christians Brace for Life Under the Muslim Brotherhood

obl- December 9, 2011

BY JAMES HEISER 8/12/2011 As militant Islamists celebrate their decisive victory in the recent Egyptian election, Coptic Christians are bracing themselves for the next round ... Read More

Church: 70% of Copts voted during first phase of elections

obl- December 5, 2011

Emad Khalil 04/12/2011 Christians do not fear the rise of Islamists in Egypt — what scares them instead are electoral tactics that go against religious ... Read More

Coptic Church to support independents in run-off Elections

obl- December 5, 2011

Ragab Ramadan 04/12/2011 The Coptic Orthodox Church will support independent candidates in Alexandria against Islamist parties in the run-offs for the first phase of the ... Read More

Conference on the problem of discrimination and persecution against Christians opens in Moscow

OCP- December 3, 2011

1.12.2011 A Conference on the Freedom of Faith: the Problem of Discrimination and Persecution of Christians opened at the conference hall of “Danilovskaya” hotel in ... Read More

Greek Patriarch of Alexandria Pays Historic Visit to St. Catherine Monastery at Mount Sinai

obl- November 29, 2011

Stella Tsolakidou 28/11/2011 76 years after the then Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa His Beatitude Meletios Metaxakis had visited the historic Holy Monastery of ... Read More