Church
12 priests flee monastery after brawl with colleagues
Egypt
March 22, 2015
12 priests flee monastery after brawl with colleagues
Twelve priests fled a monastery south west of Cairo after an argument with their colleagues turned violent, a source at…
Pope repudiates controversial monastery after priests, police standoff
Egypt
March 12, 2015
Pope repudiates controversial monastery after priests, police standoff
Egypt’s Orthodox Pope has disowned priests involved in the, presumably, illegal construction of a monastery wall west of Cairo that…
Pope inaugurates new church in Rehab
Egypt
February 27, 2015
Pope inaugurates new church in Rehab
Pope Tawadros II has inaugurated the Virgin Mary and Martyrs Church in Rehab City and led a mass, accompanied by…
President’s surprise Christmas mass walk-in unprecedented
Egypt
January 7, 2015
President’s surprise Christmas mass walk-in unprecedented
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday became the first Egyptian leader since 1968 to attend a Christmas mass as Egypt’s…
Double sin
Opinion
January 6, 2015
Double sin
I wrote an article last week commenting on the intervention of the church in political affairs and the statements of…
Two Egyptian police shot dead outside Coptic Church south of Cairo
Egypt
January 6, 2015
Two Egyptian police shot dead outside Coptic Church south of Cairo
Two Egyptian policemen were shot dead on Tuesday as they stood guard at a Coptic Christian church in a city…
Controversy sparked over Pope Tawadros’s stance on civil marriage
Egypt
December 28, 2014
Controversy sparked over Pope Tawadros’s stance on civil marriage
An interview by Al-Masry Al-Youm with Egypt’s Coptic leader Pope Tawardros II has stirred wide reactions regarding the Orthodox Church’s…
US-based think tank urges Coptic church to curb political involvement
Egypt
December 24, 2014
US-based think tank urges Coptic church to curb political involvement
A US-based study group has urged the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church to abstain from state-oriented political involvement and adjust its…
Unidentified assailants burn church bus
Egypt
December 22, 2014
Unidentified assailants burn church bus
Unidentified assailants set fire to a bus belonging to the Church of the Virgin Mary, in the village of Mit…
Evangelical community submits recommendations on personal status draft
Egypt
December 7, 2014
Evangelical community submits recommendations on personal status draft
The Evangelical community has submitted its notices on the draft law on Christian’s personal status to the Ministry of Transitional…