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12 priests flee monastery after brawl with colleagues
Egypt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…
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