Coptic Orthodox Church

Leader of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church blasts country’s president over handling of recent deadly sectarian violence

April 10, 2013 News

10/4/13 The leader of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church on Tuesday blasted the country’s Islamist president over his handling of the recent deadly sectarian violence, including an attack on the main cathedral in Cairo. The remarks by Pope Tawadros II underscore rising Muslim-Christian tensions in Egypt. They were Tawadros’ first direct criticism of President Mohammed Morsi since [...]

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Two die as Coptic Orthodox Church in Libya attacked with grenade

January 2, 2013 Featured News

2/01/2013 Ken Hanly Misratah – Unknown attackers threw a grenade at a Coptic Orthodox Church in Dafniya a town near Misrata Libya. The attack killed two Egyptian citizens and two others were wounded. The other two who were wounded are said to be in stable condition according to Pope Timothy Beshara of the Libyan Orthodox [...]

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Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church to take part in constitutional poll

December 14, 2012 Featured News

Ahram Online – 14/12/12 Pope Tawadros II says Egypt’s Coptic Church will not push its congregants to vote either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in upcoming referendum on draft constitution. At a Thursday meeting with the Council of Catholic Churches in Egypt, Pope Tawadros II, head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, said that Christians in Egypt enjoyed [...]

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Bishop Raphel appointed as the Secretary to the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church

November 23, 2012 Featured News

OCP News Service 23/11/2012 Cairo:The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and All Africa announced Bishop Raphael as the new Secretary to the Holy Synod.Bishop Raphael will replace Bishop Anba Bishoy.The deselection was made in the session of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Church presided by Pope Pope Tawadros II. Bishop Raphael had been one of the three candidates whose names [...]

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A post-election lesson for Americans from Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church

November 9, 2012 Featured News

Brad Hirschfield 8/11/2012 The election is over and now the real work begins. Today is not fundamentally about Republicans and Democrats. It is not about winners and losers. It is about us, the American public and how we will be best served by those in elected office. We endured not only a closely contested election, but one [...]

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Humming the oldest tune in history

October 24, 2012 Featured News

Ahmed Abdel Hafez 23/10/2012 Listening to Quranic verses and prayers playing on the radio while riding a cab is common in Cairo. But recently, Coptic psalms are likely to catch your ears as well. The Coptic Orthodox Church has closely guarded Coptic hymns within its walls for centuries now. A non-Coptic layman would only be [...]

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Papal finalist elections on 29 October, name drawing on 4 November

October 17, 2012 Featured News

Al-Masry, Al-Youm 16/10/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church has announced that the papal elections would be held on 29 October instead of 24 November, and that the final draw between candidates would take place on 4 November instead of 2 December. Bishop Paul, spokesperson for the papal nominations committee, said that there will be three days [...]

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Beheira governor suspends church demolition

October 10, 2012 Featured News

Rana Muhammad Taha 10/101/2012 The Governor of Beheira Mokhtar Al-Hamalawi has ordered the suspension of the demolition of Rachid church in the city of Rachid, as well as the confiscation of the bulldozers and equipment needed to tear the building down, according to the Governorate of Beheira’s press office. The demolition was prevented since the [...]

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Copts remember Maspero victims at Cathedral

October 4, 2012 Featured News

4/10/2012 Basil El-Dabh Metropolitan Abba Pachomius: “We live in a new era of martyrdom.” The Coptic Orthodox Church held a liturgy on Wednesday at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Abbaseya. The service commemorated the protesters who died almost a year ago on 9 October 2011 and marked the next phase of the selection of a new [...]

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Coptic Orthodox Church declares three days of Fasting and Prayers

September 30, 2012 Featured News

Amir Ramzi Correspondent- OCP Media  Network OCP News Service Cairo: The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria has announced fasting and prayer 3 days in order to select the New Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch the Holy see of St. Mark Divine Liturgy at all Churches on Sunday 30 September  will prepare the faithful for  the [...]

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The Coptic Orthodox Church announces Papal Selection dates

September 14, 2012 Featured News

  While the chronological order of stages will not change, these dates are set based on the stipulation of the electoral statute and may change as committees find the need for extensions to their allotted timescale, which will in turn have an effect upon the above mentioned stages.   The Coptic Orthodox Church Centre UK [...]

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The First Coptic Orthodox Church to be Constructed in the City of Santiago

September 4, 2012 Featured News

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Dominican Republic 4/9/2012 Visit the Facebook community for all updates: Santiago: Under the auspices of His Grace Bishop Youssef of Bolivia, the faithful are currently establishing the first Coptic Orthodox Church in the city of Santiago in the Dominican Republic (Caribbean sea). The church has been registered with the local [...]

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Coptic Orthodox Church reveals 17 candidates for Papal Seat

August 12, 2012 Featured News

Ahram Online 12/8/2012 The Church has unveiled its longlist of bishops and monks competing to succeed Pope Shenouda III later this year The acting head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has released details of the 17 candidates in the running to become the next pope, according to a report on Ahram’s Arabic-language news website. Bishop [...]

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The Coptic Church announces voter list

July 27, 2012 Featured News

Basil El-Dabh 26/7/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church has revealed the list of voters who will select the 118th Pope of Alexandria The Coptic Church has announced that the selection process for the Pope will yield its final results in November, at which point the successor to Pope Shenouda III will be announced. The current field [...]

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Coptic Orthodox Church to point the way to new Pope

July 23, 2012 News

Basil El-Dabh 21/7/2012 The Coptic Church has also announced that it will not attend the traditional yearly Ramadan Iftaar banquet in mourning for the death of Pope Shenouda III. The commission overseeing the election of the new Patriarch of the Coptic Church will disclose the list of voters who will participate in the election of [...]

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The OCeeker: St. Marina Coptic Orthodox Church and the Kiss That Missed

July 16, 2012 News

Josh Dulaney 15/7/2012 Something kinda holy just happened. If only the OCeeker could make sense of it. But that’s the risk one takes when a sanctified savage lolligags into a liturgy where even the Almighty his own self can’t break through the language barrier. That said, a man will take a blessing in any tongue, [...]

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The Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom responds to the Government Equalities Office Consultation relating to same-sex civil marriage

June 15, 2012 Featured News

14/6/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church Centre UK Media and Public Relations Office The Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom responds to the Government Equalities Office Consultation relating to same-sex civil marriage. In response to the Government Equalities Office Consultation, The Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom has stated that it cannot support the [...]

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Preliminary list of names presented to the Nominations Committee in Egypt of those put forward as Papal candidates for The Coptic Orthodox Church

June 2, 2012 Featured News

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 forward as Papal candidates was announced and published on Wednesday 30th May 2012, in Cairo as part of the Papal Selection Process for the Coptic Orthodox Church. The Holy Synod [...]

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Egyptian Copts abandon constitution talks

April 2, 2012 Featured News
Supporters of a Salafist presidential candidate in Cairo on March 30, 2012.

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 has announced it is withdrawing from talks on a new constitution, saying Islamist domination of the drafting body has made its participation “pointless,” Egypt’s state news agency said. The decision [...]

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WCC tribute to Pope Shenouda III and condolence message to the Coptic Orthodox Church

March 24, 2012 News

To the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church Geneva, 18 March 2011 Your Eminences and Graces, Respected members of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, It is with great sadness and compassion for the Coptic Church and the people of Egypt that the World Council of Churches [...]

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Message of condolences of the Patriarch of Romania at the passing away of Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church

March 23, 2012 News

Message of condolences of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel at the passing away of Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church: To His Eminence Metropolitan BISHOY, General Secretary of the Holy Synod, Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate Your Eminence, It is with deep Christian sorrow that we have learned of the passing away from this world, [...]

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New Mission Announced for Coptic Orthodox Church in Orange County

March 4, 2012 Featured News

3/3/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria Diocese of Los Angeles Diocese Announces the Opening of St. Paul American Coptic Orthodox Church, a Missionary Parish in Orange County With great joy, the Diocese announces the opening of a new parish in Orange County: St. Paul American Coptic Orthodox Church. As the name suggests, this parish [...]

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Coptic Orthodox Church launches new ministry in the City

February 23, 2012 News

London 22/2/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church has launched a new ministry in the City of London. The St Paul Ministry, launched by the Church’s leader Bishop Angaelos, will offer an English language service in the beautiful St Mary-le-Bow church in the heart of the financial district. The first service will take place on March 4 [...]

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Lagos governor urges closer religion-state links

February 22, 2012 Featured News
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (right) being decorated with the Lion of Alexandria Medal by the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Pope Theodore ll (left) during his courtesy visit to the Governor at the State House, Alausa-Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, February 20, 2012.

22/2/2012 Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Monday advocated the deepening of relationship between governments and religious bodies as means to provide solution to the numerous challenges facing humanity. Governor Fashola, who spoke at the Lagos House Ikeja while playing host to the Patriarch and Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Pope [...]

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Coptic Orthodox Priest Describes Revival in Egyptian Christianity

February 16, 2012 Featured News
Worshippers attend service at centuries-old Coptic Orthodox Church located just outside Cairo's downtown district, Feb. 9, 2012. (Photo: The Christian Post/Alex Murashko)

16/2/2012 I can’t give the name of the ministry organisation that provides support for marginalised Christians and believers put under pressure in Egypt in the text of this story – I’m not used to that. Naming your sources is what you learn in Journalism 101. It’s ingrained in me. However, on a media trip to [...]

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