Tag: Coptic Church
Copts’ flight from Sinai’s Rafah alarms church; rights groups express solidarity
30/9/2012 Sherry El-Gergawi Rights groups and Coptic Church call on state to provide security for all Egyptians following departure of Christian families from Rafah ... Read More
Placing Coptic Church Funds Under Egyptian State Control
Jeremy Reynalds 3/9/2012 Demands raised this week by Islamists in the Constituent Assembly, which is drafting the new Egyptian constitution, for placing the Church’s funds ... Read More
The Coptic Church announces voter list
Basil El-Dabh 26/7/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church has revealed the list of voters who will select the 118th Pope of Alexandria The Coptic Church has ... Read More
Coptic Orthodox Church to point the way to new Pope
Basil El-Dabh 21/7/2012 The Coptic Church has also announced that it will not attend the traditional yearly Ramadan Iftaar banquet in mourning for the death ... Read More
President-elect Morsi receives acting pope of Egypt’s Coptic Church
Ahram Online 26/6/2012 New Islamist president-elect receives acting head of Coptic Church, says he will not countenance 'condescension' to Egypt's Coptic-Christian community. Mohamed Morsi, ... Read More
Coptic Church Head in UK Speaks of Hope for Egypt in Wake of Morsi’s Election Win
By Christian Today 25/6/2012 The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the U.K. has spoken of his hope for positive reform in Egypt after ... Read More
Church extends voter registration for papal election
Photographed by AFP Al-Masry Al-Youm 21/06/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church on Wednesday extended the voter registration process for papal elections from June to mid-July. The ... Read More
Coptic Church not worried by potential Morsy victory
MENA 18/06/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church has said that it would respect the final results of the presidential election and is not concerned by a ... Read More
Century-old trees near Coptic Church survive another day
BY EVA TEJSZERSKI 19/6/2012 WHEN Doug and Karen Doyle heard that 100-year-old trees at Bexley might get the chop, they were less than impressed. But ... Read More
Housing for the poor in Valle Sanchez
The Coptic Church in Bolivia Karim Aziz & Amir Ramzi 1/5/2012 Website: Over those lasts few months we where busy building the first housing complex ... Read More
Coptic Christians call for divorce law relaxation
Al Ahram Online 23/4/2012 Coptic 38 – a group founded to demand liberalisation of divorce laws by Coptic Christian Church – calls for reimplementation of ... Read More
Birth of the Coptic Calendar
22/4/2012 Sherry el gergawi The persecution of Christians began in the time of Nero. To commemorate such years of persecution, the Coptic Church introduced the ... Read More
Egypt’s Copts face tough choices in looming presidential elections
Dina Ezzat 15/4/2012 Currently under an interim pope, the Coptic Church - and its roughly 10 million followers - grapples with the ongoing debate over ... Read More
Abuna Michael meets President Obama
5/4/2012 Coptic Church in USA HG Bishop David of the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of N. America was invited to the White House Easter Prayer Breakfast ... Read More
Orthodox Primates Stress Need for Peace and Stability in Middle East
30/3/2012 On the invitation of His Beatitude Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II, and in the framework of the pastoral care of the Senior Patriarchates of ... Read More
Coptic Church criticises make-up of Egypt’s constituent assembly
Ahram Online 29/3/2012 In Thursday statement, Coptic Church blasts methods used to form constitution-drafting body, says constituent assembly fails to represent broad spectrum of Egyptian ... Read More
The Orthodox Coptic Pope: What’s Next for the Coptic Church?
By Nader Habib 26/3/2012 After the passing of Pope Shenouda III as leader of Egypt's Coptic Church last Saturday, attention has now turned to who ... Read More
Archbishop Anba Pachomius the acting Patriarch of Coptic Church
22/3/2012 Coptic Church committee to discuss papal candidates. The Holy Synod, the Coptic Church's highest authority, will hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss papal ... Read More
Egypt’s next pope faces immense challenges
Yasmine Fathi 21/3/2012 "Egypt isn't a country we live in, but a country that lives within us." So said Egypt’s late Coptic Pope Shenouda III, ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill Mourns Pope Shenouda
19/3/2012 Translated using Google translate service. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill expressed his condolences to the members of the Holy Synod of the ... Read More
Charismatic Pope Shenouda ushered Coptic Church into wider world
By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent 19/3/2012 On becoming the head of Egypt's Coptic Church in November 1971, Pope Shenouda III showed interest in promoting Orthodox ... Read More