Tag: Egypt
Preliminary list of names presented to the Nominations Committee in Egypt of those put forward as Papal candidates for The Coptic Orthodox Church
30/5/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church Centre UK Media and Public Relations Office The preliminary list of names presented to the Nominations Committee of those put ... Read More
Surrounded by a climate of fear, Egypt’s Copts to vote for a secularist president
Simon Hanna 22/5/2012 “We're going to decide together as a community who to vote for and we'll all vote together. We need to decide who ... Read More
Egypt Sentences 12 Coptic Christians to Life in Prison
Assyrian International News Agency 22/5/2012 On 21 May, Egypt's State Security Council sentenced 12 Christians to life in prison and acquitted eight Muslims. The Christians ... Read More
Muslim Persecution of Christians: April 2012
Raymond Ibrahim 20/5/2012 "The police are also involved in this." "500 Muslims had gathered and were watching in amusement as the extremists chased and harassed ... Read More
Sassounian: Armenians in Egypt: Dwindling Yet Resilient in a Country in Turmoil
Harut Sassounian 16/5/2012 I just returned from a fascinating trip to Egypt. The Primate of the Armenian Church had invited me on behalf of the ... Read More
UK parliamentarians hear plight of Christian Women
John Pontifex and John Newton Aid to the Church in Need 15/5/2012 Revelations about the scale of hate crimes against Christian women in Pakistan and ... Read More
Copts to shun Islamists in Egypt’s presidential, vote fear sectarian conflicts
By YASMINE SALEH REUTERS CAIRO 15/5/2012 Egypt’s Coptic Christians complained of discrimination under Hosni Mubarak but fear it may get worse if an Islamist takes ... Read More
Christians worried over having Islamist president
By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent 7/5/2012 Islamists' growing clout in Egypt in the wake of a popular revolt, which toppled long-standing president Hosni Mubarak in ... Read More
Egypt Christians hold Liturgy in memory of late Pope Shenouda III
Ahram Online 25/4/2012 Ritual marking 40 days since death of popular pope to be held at Cairo's Abbasiya Cathedral and St Bishoy Monastery. Liturgy to ... 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
The late Pope Shenouda still inspires Coptic Christians
By Rev. Alexander Santora/For the Jersey Journal 12/4/2012 Orthodox Christians follow a different liturgical calendar than the rest of Christianity so today begins their Triduum ... Read More
Copts tour J’lem for Easter after their pope’s death
Photo: Marc Israel Sellem By BEN HARTMAN 9/4/2012 On first Easter since death of their pope, who banned pilgrimages, Egyptian Christian group's members come to ... Read More
Syria’s Christians caught in the middle
7/4/2012 As the year-long conflict polarises Syrian society, Omar Abdel-Razek from BBC Arabic finds an Orthodox Christian community worried it could face trouble from both ... Read More
After Arab Spring, experts fearful of Christian targeting at Easter celebrations
By Dan Merica, CNN 7/4/2012 (CNN)– For Christians in countries thrown into tumult by the Arab Spring revolutions, Easter celebrations may prove dangerous. According to ... Read More
Coptic church denies lifting ban
By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent 8/4/2012 Cairo: The Coptic Orthodox Church has denied lifting a ban on pilgrimage to occupied Jerusalem as more Egyptian Christians ... Read More
Egyptian Copts abandon constitution talks
2/4/2012 Reuters Country's liberals, Christians decide to boycott the committee drafting Egypt's new constitution, which they say is dominated by Islamists. Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church ... Read More
The Plight Of Egypt’s Coptic Christians
29/3/2012 A Question Of Faith – Religion In The Modern World is a weekly column by Wolff Bachner about the quest for religious identity and ... 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
Karekin II, Aram I Offer Condolences on Coptic Pope’s Death
20/3/2012 ETCHMIADZIN, ANTELLIAS—His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of the All Armenians and His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia offered condolences ... Read More
Christian family evicted from Egypt town
AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press 21/3/2012 CAIRO (AP) — Nabil Gergis, a Coptic Christian, lived for nearly two decades in the Egyptian town of Amriya, raising ... Read More