All posts tagged "copts"

By Marina Kilada Today, the Coptic Orthodox community -one of several minorities in Egypt- celebrates the beginning...

From the 7th to the 21st of August, the Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates one of its most...

Earlier this month, the Coptic Orthodox community in Vancouver, Canada woke up to a devastating tragedy after...

The past decade has been the most eventful and tumultuous in Egypt’s modern political history since the...

By denouncing the inappropriate clothing of Christian women attending the Orthodox Coptic Easter sermon on April 30,...

Following Friday’s tragic events in which seven were killed and many were wounded after unknown gunmen shot...

A monk who served as a confessional priest for one of two defrocked monks charged with the...

Egyptian authorities have ordered the arrest of a defrocked monk on charges of murdering Bishop Epiphanius at...

Egyptian police managed to foil an attempt to bomb a church in the town of Mostoroud in...

The Minister of Antiquities has announced that a committee will be appointed the task of creating Egypt’s...

After seven years of closure of their old church by local authorities due to ‘security reasons’, the...

The remains of the 21 Egyptian Copts who were killed by the Islamic State two years ago...

The terror sect the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack on a church in the...

Grand Imam of al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb condemned on Friday the terrorist attack on Mar Mina Church in Helwan, located in Greater Cairo. The attack left at least 9 dead and another 10 wounded. The victims of the attack included policemen and worshipers. Al-Tayeb stressed that the reasons behind the repeated occurrence of terrorist...

Contrary to the celebration of Christmas Mass traditionally being held in the St. Mark Cathedral in Cairo’s...

Fellow of the UN High Commissioner for Minority Affairs, Joseph Malak, sent a warning on Sunday to...

Pope Tawadros II, the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, inaugurated on Sunday a 44-storey skyscraper in...