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UK parliamentarians hear plight of Christian Women

by OCP May 15, 2012 News

John Pontifex and John Newton Aid to the Church in Need 15/5/2012 Revelations about the scale of hate crimes against Christian women in Pakistan and Egypt are to be the subject of a meeting in parliament today. At the briefing in the House of Commons, MPs and peers will hear how Christian women in countries [...]

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Copts to shun Islamists in Egypt’s presidential, vote fear sectarian conflicts

by OCP May 15, 2012 News
Orthodox Coptic church official said 6 million Copts are among the 50 million eligible voters who go to the polls on May 23 and 24 and again next month in a run-off if no candidate scores more than 50 percent in the first round. (File photo)

By YASMINE SALEH REUTERS CAIRO 15/5/2012 Egypt’s Coptic Christians complained of discrimination under Hosni Mubarak but fear it may get worse if an Islamist takes his place in next week’s presidential election. Long-suppressed Islamists already dominate parliament. Islamist contenders for the presidency say Christians, who form about a tenth of Egypt’s 82 million mostly Muslim [...]

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Christians worried over having Islamist president

by OCP May 7, 2012 Featured News

By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent 7/5/2012 Islamists’ growing clout in Egypt in the wake of a popular revolt, which toppled long-standing president Hosni Mubarak in February last year, has triggered fears among the country’s Christian minority. Cairo: Although the Church has announced it does not favour a certain contender in Egypt’s coming presidential election, Marina [...]

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Egypt Christians hold Liturgy in memory of late Pope Shenouda III

by OCP April 27, 2012 Featured News

Ahram Online 25/4/2012 Ritual marking 40 days since death of popular pope to be held at Cairo’s Abbasiya Cathedral and St Bishoy Monastery. Liturgy to mark 40 days since the death of Pope Shenouda III will take place Wednesday at Cairo’s Abbassiya Cathedral and the St Bishoy Monastery in Wadi El-Natroun where the pope is [...]

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Birth of the Coptic Calendar

by OCP April 22, 2012 News

22/4/2012 Sherry el gergawi The persecution of Christians began in the time of Nero. To commemorate such years of persecution, the Coptic Church introduced the Anno Martyrum, or Year of the Martyrs calendar. The persecution of the Christians began in the time of Nero and continued sporadically for nearly three centuries. It ended officially with [...]

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Egypt’s Copts face tough choices in looming presidential elections

by OCP April 17, 2012 Featured News
Late Pope Shenouda III (L), head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, cast his vote during a national referendum, at a school in Cairo 19 March, 2011. (Photo: Reuters)

Dina Ezzat 15/4/2012 Currently under an interim pope, the Coptic Church – and its roughly 10 million followers – grapples with the ongoing debate over Egypt’s imminent presidential contest amid fears of Islamist political ascendancy It’s Easter Sunday, but it’s hardly a joyful occasion for Egyptian Copts, who are still mourning the recent loss of [...]

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The late Pope Shenouda still inspires Coptic Christians

by OCP April 14, 2012 Featured News

By Rev. Alexander Santora/For the Jersey Journal 12/4/2012 Orthodox Christians follow a different liturgical calendar than the rest of Christianity so today begins their Triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Culminating with Easter is quite joyful but for the Coptic Orthodox it will be bittersweet this year. Their Patriarch of 40 years, [...]

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Copts tour J’lem for Easter after their pope’s death

by OCP April 10, 2012 News

Photo: Marc Israel Sellem By BEN HARTMAN 9/4/2012 On first Easter since death of their pope, who banned pilgrimages, Egyptian Christian group’s members come to J’lem. Dr. Kahlida Mamdouhah of Cairo waited for years before fulfilling his dream of making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem out of respect for the late Coptic pope who had banned [...]

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Syria’s Christians caught in the middle

by OCP April 8, 2012 Featured News

7/4/2012 As the year-long conflict polarises Syrian society, Omar Abdel-Razek from BBC Arabic finds an Orthodox Christian community worried it could face trouble from both the government and opposition. “The university has become a battlefield between the supporters and the opposition of the regime.” That was what Lena (not her real name), a medical student [...]

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After Arab Spring, experts fearful of Christian targeting at Easter celebrations

by OCP April 8, 2012 Featured News

By Dan Merica, CNN 7/4/2012 (CNN)– For Christians in countries thrown into tumult by the Arab Spring revolutions, Easter celebrations may prove dangerous. According to experts and academics in the United States, the changing balances of power in each country, along with a history of anti-Christian sentiment, have made overt celebrations like Easter a cause [...]

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Coptic church denies lifting ban

by OCP April 8, 2012 Featured News

By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent 8/4/2012 Cairo: The Coptic Orthodox Church has denied lifting a ban on pilgrimage to occupied Jerusalem as more Egyptian Christians have flown to Israel to visit the holy city in the past few days. “We continue to follow in the footsteps of late Pope Shenouda III with regard to national [...]

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Egyptian Copts abandon constitution talks

by OCP 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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The Plight Of Egypt’s Coptic Christians

by OCP March 30, 2012 Featured News

29/3/2012 A Question Of Faith – Religion In The Modern World is a weekly column by Wolff Bachner about the quest for religious identity and freedom in the 21st century. Most of us in the West have little knowledge of what life is like for Christians in the Muslim world. Take for example, the Coptic [...]

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Coptic Church criticises make-up of Egypt’s constituent assembly

by OCP March 30, 2012 Featured News

Ahram Online 29/3/2012 In Thursday statement, Coptic Church blasts methods used to form constitution-drafting body, says constituent assembly fails to represent broad spectrum of Egyptian society. Egypt’s Coptic Church on Thursday issued a statement criticising the system used to form Egypt’s recently-established constituent assembly, tasked with drafting a new national constitution. Half the members of [...]

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Karekin II, Aram I Offer Condolences on Coptic Pope’s Death

by OCP March 23, 2012 Featured News

20/3/2012 ETCHMIADZIN, ANTELLIAS—His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of the All Armenians and His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia offered condolences on the passing of Pope Shenouda III the leader of Coptic Orthodox Christians. Both Armenian Church leaders will be sending a delegation to Pope Shenouda’s funeral, which is scheduled to [...]

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Christian family evicted from Egypt town

by OCP March 23, 2012 Featured News
Mourners and journalists gather for the interment of Pope Shenouda III at the Saint Bishoy monastery in Wadi Natroun, northwest of Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Pope Shenouda III, an iconic figure for 40 years at the helm of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, was laid to rest Tuesday in a desert monastery after a moving funeral Mass at a Cairo cathedral attended by tens of thousands. Shenouda's death brought an outpouring of expressions of Muslim-Christian unity, but it has done little to hide the alarm of Egypt's 10 million Christians and liberal Muslims over the political ascent of Islamists. Photo: Khalil Hamra / AP

AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press 21/3/2012 CAIRO (AP) — Nabil Gergis, a Coptic Christian, lived for nearly two decades in the Egyptian town of Amriya, raising his children and managing a modest business. Those ties couldn’t protect him after a sex video purportedly showing his brother with a Muslim woman began to circulate. Angry residents in [...]

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Egypt’s next pope faces immense challenges

by OCP March 21, 2012 News

Yasmine Fathi 21/3/2012 “Egypt isn’t a country we live in, but a country that lives within us.” So said Egypt’s late Coptic Pope Shenouda III, in one of his better-known public statements. After heading Egypt’s Coptic Church since 1971, Shenouda passed away quietly on Saturday, putting millions of Christians into a state of mourning. A [...]

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Updated:Funeral Snaps of Pope Shenouda from Cairo

by OCP March 20, 2012 Featured News
Thousands of Egyptian Christians stand watch on a giant screen the funeral of late Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church

20/3/2012 Pope Shenouda has been laid to rest at St Bishoy Monastery which is situated Cairo-Alexandria road in northern Egypt’s Wadi Al-Natroun region. Pope Shenouda III, an iconic figure for 40 years at the helm of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, was laid to rest Tuesday in a desert monastery after a moving funeral Mass at [...]

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Pope Shenouda III: Four decades of Coptic history

by OCP March 20, 2012 Featured News
An Egyptian Christian woman grieves as she holds a poster of late Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, during his funeral at Mar Morqos, or St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Arabic read " goodbye our dear Pope".

20/4/2012 Sherif Tarek Since the 1970s, Coptic history has been largely shaped by the towering figure of Pope Shenouda III, remembered for both keeping the peace and challenging the status quo. Having been pronounced dead on Saturday afternoon at 88, Pope Shenouda III ended an exceptionally hectic tenure that impacted Copts in many ways over [...]

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Pope Shenouda to be buried at Egypt’s St Bishoy Monastery

by OCP March 20, 2012 News

20/3/2012 Late Coptic pope to be laid to rest at St Bishoy Monastery, the desert sanctuary to which he would retreat to express papal displeasure with Egypt’s temporal authorities. The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria on Sunday announced that the body of Pope Shenouda III would be buried within the precincts of Egypt’s St Bishoy [...]

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New Papal Tomb St.Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Monastery (Snaps)

by OCP March 20, 2012 Featured News

19/3/2012 New Papal Tomb at St.Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Monastery-Wadi Al Natroun – Egypt, where Pope Shenouda will be laid to rest on Tuesday, 20th of March2012. Source:

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Thousands expected to gather for funeral of Pope Shenouda III Tuesday

by OCP March 20, 2012 News

19/3/2012 Bel Trew Funeral of Coptic Orthodox Church’s leader is due to start 11am Tuesday at St Mark’s Cathedral, Abbasiya; only invitation holders will be allowed to attend but hundreds of thousands are expected to gather outside. Hundreds of thousands of mourners are expected to gather on Tuesday in front of St. Mark’s Cathedral in [...]

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New Papal Tomb at St.Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Monastery(Video)

by OCP March 19, 2012 Featured News
St.Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Monastery-Wadi El Natrun

19/3/2012 New Papal Tomb at St.Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Monastery-Wadi Al Natroun – Egypt, where Pope Shenouda will be laid to rest on Tuesday, 20th of March2012. Source:

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Charismatic Pope Shenouda ushered Coptic Church into wider world

by OCP March 19, 2012 Featured News
Egyptian Christians gather to mourn the death of Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, outside the Abbasiya Cathedral in Cairo March 18, 2012.

By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent 19/3/2012 On becoming the head of Egypt’s Coptic Church in November 1971, Pope Shenouda III showed interest in promoting Orthodox Christianity far beyond Egypt. On becoming the head of Egypt’s Coptic Church in November 1971, Pope Shenouda III showed interest in promoting Orthodox Christianity far beyond Egypt. He built churches [...]

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Overcrowding at Coptic pope’s viewing leads to 3 deaths, dozens of injuries

by OCP March 19, 2012 News
A woman faints as crowds converge on Saint Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo's al-Abbassiya district, March 18, 2012

From Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, For CNN 19/3/2012 Cairo (CNN) — Overcrowding inside a cathedral where Coptic Christians had gathered to pay last respects to their pope caused a stampede that left three people dead and more than 50 injured, a health official said. Coptic Pope Shenouda III, who led the Coptic community for more than [...]

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