Tag: Coptic Church
Church lawyer says controversial priest’s wife to appear on TV Soon
By:Marwa Al-A’sar/Daily News Egypt 1/5/2011 CAIRO: A priest’s wife who is allegedly being held against her will by the Coptic Church for converting to Islam, ... Read More
Coptic Church rejects US commission Report
Emad Khalil 29/04/2011 The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt rejected the US Commission on International Religious Freedom's (CIRF) annual report, which condemned Egypt's lack of ... Read More
General Prosecuter orders Church to deliver Shehata for Questioning
Ahram Online 30/4/2011 The General-Prosecutor has ordered the Coptic Church to deliver Camelia Shehata for questioning. Shehata is the wife of a Coptic priest who ... Read More
Presidential frontrunners offer symbolic support for Egypt’s Copts on Easter
Dina Ezzat 22/4/2011 Amr Moussa and Mohamed ElBaradei, the twin front-runners in Egypt's upcoming presidential election, join in giving symbolic support for Egypt's Christians on ... Read More
Easter Devotional: Archbishop Angaelos of the Coptic Church on the Resurrection
21/4/2011 An Easter reflection by Bishop Angaelos, head of the Coptic Church in the UK: Key verses: 1 Peter 4:12-13 As we celebrate the commemoration ... Read More
Coptic Church rebuilt by Egyptian Army
18/4/2011 Christian Egyptian Coptics attend the first Divine Liturgy in Two Martyrs Church on Sunday April 17, after it was completely rebuilt by the Egyptian ... Read More
Egypt: Coptic Church bombing suspects Released
11/4/2011 Cairo, 11 April (AKI) - Twenty people arrested on suspicion of taking part in the deadly New Year's bombing of a Coptic Church in ... Read More
Muslim Brotherhood-Coptic relations: A dubious Rapprochement
Noha El-Hennawy 04/04/2011 As the Muslim Brotherhood begins its life as an official political player, it is attempting to revamp its image to appeal to ... Read More
Salafi protesters demand release of Priest’s Wife
29/03/2011 Dozens of Salafis protested on Tuesday during a court session about a priest's wife who they say embraced Islam and is now being held ... Read More
In Egypt, Coptic Christian Assaulted By Muslim Extremists
Al-Ahram, Egypt 25/3/2011 In the village of Qana, in Upper Egypt, Coptic Christian teacher Ayman Anwar Metari was attacked by a Salafist gang that cut ... 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
His Holiness 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
Tribunal hears Coptic Church development Opposition
by Shaun Turton 15/2/2011 THE Coptic Church’s $8 million proposal for a sport and function centre at its Donvale headquarters has appeared before the state ... Read More
Mourning Copts- More Snaps from the Coptic Church
5/01/2011 Snaps taken after the Bomb Blast at Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria, 230 km (140 miles) north of Cairo January 1, 2011. A car ... Read More
Catholicos Aram I Denounces Attack on Coptic Church in Alexandria
3/1/2011 ANTELLIAS, Lebanon (Combined Sources)— His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia has condemned a deadly car bomb attack at the ... 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
Coptic Church urges university exam shift for Christmas
Emad Khalil 21/12/2010 The Coptic Orthodox Church has urged Minister of Higher Education Hani Helal to cancel university exams scheduled for 8 January, the day ... Read More
Release ordered for 70 Copts held in Giza Rots
13/12/2010 Mena Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud has ordered the release of 70 Coptic Christians who were detained along with dozens of others in violent ... Read More
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Coptics take Dome proposal to VCAT
By Shaun Turton 8/12/2010 THE Coptic Church have taken their plans for an $8 million sport and function centre at their Donvale headquarters to the ... Read More
Coptic Church accepts Al-Ahram front page Apology
Emad Khalil 08/12/2010 Coptic Bishop Sergius said the Church was satisfied with Al-Ahram Editor in Chief Osama Saraya’s apology, published by the daily on Monday, ... Read More