Tag: Coptic Church

Copts’ flight from Sinai’s Rafah alarms church; rights groups express solidarity

OCP- September 30, 2012

  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

OCP- September 3, 2012

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

OCP- July 27, 2012

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

OCP- July 23, 2012

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

OCP- June 29, 2012

  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

OCP- June 26, 2012

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

OCP- June 22, 2012

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

OCP- June 20, 2012

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

OCP- June 20, 2012

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

OCP- May 1, 2012

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

OCP- April 24, 2012

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

OCP- April 22, 2012

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

OCP- April 17, 2012

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

OCP- April 5, 2012

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

OCP- March 30, 2012

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

OCP- March 30, 2012

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?

OCP- March 26, 2012

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

OCP- March 23, 2012

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

OCP- March 21, 2012

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

OCP- March 20, 2012

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

OCP- March 19, 2012

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