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The Anger and Forgiveness of God-Part I

February 11, 2013 Articles

  Varghese Mathai OCP Articles 11/2/13 Is God always an angry God?  Does He wish that mankind to be subjected to His wrath or He is Merciful, Graceful and Forgive His children?  Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of His great love for us, God who is rich in [...]

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Recapturing Babylon

June 24, 2011 Articles

Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 23 – 29 June 2011 Issue No. 1053 Special Babylon of Egypt: The Archaeology of Old Cairo and the Origins of the City Peter Sheehan The American University in Cairo Press, 2010. Reviewed by Jill Kamil Every so often a book comes on the market which is [...]

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Anti-Christian Violence in Muslim World

June 18, 2011 Articles
Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s minister for minorities affairs and a Christian, was in this car when he was killed by gunmen on March 2. AP Photo by Anjum Naveed

BU prof: recent spate spotlights longtime problem BY RICH BARLOW 17/6/2011 “Non-Muslim communities have become endangered species throughout much of the Islamic world,” Christian human rights advocate John Eibner wrote in the Boston Globe last month. From mobs torching churches in Cairo to massacres of Christians in Iraq and Egypt to last winter’s assassination of [...]

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Finding Christian roots in the Sinai

April 3, 2011 Articles

By CAROL M. RUSSELL, Special to The Tribune While Egypt is in upheaval, some things in that country stay the same, in particular the Sinai – that vast desert in the southern half of the Sinai Peninsula that gives new meaning to the word sere. Geographically, the Gulf of Suez and Suez Canal border the [...]

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THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION

March 8, 2011 Articles

8/3/2011 How the Church reacted When the Egyptian Revolution broke out on 25 January, the Coptic Orthodox Church was still reeling from the effects of the Alexandrian massacre on New Year’s Eve. President Mubarak had been swift to condemn the bombing and to express his sympathy to Pope Shenouda III. At the Coptic Christmas Eve [...]

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Who are Egypt’s Copts, and the Middle East’s other Christian populations?

January 4, 2011 Articles

Recent attacks against Christians in Egypt and Iraq have drawn attention to the Middle East’s Christian populations, which are dwindling as Christians flee violence, political strife, and persecution. Christians made up more than 20 percent of the region’s population in the early 20th century, but today, they make up less than 10 percent. Here is [...]

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Life of a Christian Convert in Egypt

May 31, 2010 Articles

Egyptian Convert Endures Life at a Standstill – on the Run Compass Direct News May 25, 2010 Cairo, Egypt – From the mosque across the street, words blasting from minaret megaphones reverberate throughout the tiny apartment where Maher Ahmad El-Mo’otahssem Bellah El-Gohary is forced to hide. Immediately following afternoon prayers, the Friday sermon is, in [...]

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When bishops brawled: An interview with Philip Jenkins

May 26, 2010 Articles

Have you ever had a fist fight about the natures of Christ? If you have, you would fit right in among ancient Christians, says this church historian. Christians today may take it on faith that Jesus has both human and divine natures, but any church historian will tell you that in the early church the [...]

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Ecumenical Patriarch on Theotokos

May 22, 2010 Articles

The sweet victory of Mary It is considered the most beautiful Marian hymn of all time. For fifteen centuries the Christians of the Churches of Byzantine tradition have recited it in thanks to the Virgin and to ask her to safeguard them in the faith of the Apostles. 30DAYS asked Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of [...]

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