Egypt

Clashes between Muslims and Christians leave one dead and dozens injured in Egyptian city of Alexandria

May 18, 2013 Featured News

18/5/13 One person died and dozens were wounded during clashes between Muslims and  Christians late Friday night outside a Coptic church in Egypt’s second city,  state newspaper Al-Ahram reported, in the latest violent sectarian row in the  Muslim-majority country. A quarrel between two young men, one Christian and one Muslim, morphed into a family feud [...]

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Churches denounce Israel violence against Christians

May 13, 2013 Featured News

13/5/13 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Patriarchs and heads of Christian churches in Jerusalem on Sunday released a joint statement denouncing attacks by Israeli police officers on worshipers and pilgrims during Holy Saturday at the Church of Holy Sepulcher. Signatories of the statement highlighted that they saw “awful scenes of the brutal treatment to clerics, average people [...]

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Egypt’s Coptic pope visiting Vatican for the 1st time in 40 years

May 10, 2013 Featured News

  Associated Press – 10/5/13 CAIRO – Egyptian church officials say Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II has left for the Vatican, marking the first such visit in 40 years. Six priests and bishops accompanied Tawadros on his six-day visit, aimed at congratulating the new Catholic Pope, Francis I. The Coptic Church announced the pope’s departure [...]

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Coptic Pope stresses urgency of Christian unity at Vatican

May 10, 2013 Featured News

By Estefania Aguirre and David Uebbing 10/5/13 Vatican City, May 10, 2013 / 07:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt met with Pope Francis at the Vatican and spoke about the urgent need for unity among Christians in the Middle East. “We must prepare our people for this very [...]

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The Copts flee Egypt

May 3, 2013 Featured News

3/5/13 Rumours of a Coptic exodus from Egypt have been circulating by word of mouth and on the Internet, but the truth may be less dramatic than the reports have made it appear, writesMichael Adel The exodus of the Copts from Egypt is revisited every time there is political or sectarian turmoil in the country. [...]

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Coptic Orphans Registered in Egypt and Meets with H.H. Pope Tawadros II (Video)

May 1, 2013 Featured News

1/5/13 On March 31, 2013, hundreds of Coptic Orphans volunteers, along with key staff, met with His Holiness Pope Tawadros II at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo. Here is His Holiness’ evaluation of Coptic Orphans based on personal involvement with the organization as a diocesan bishop. Here’s a highlight of what His Holiness [...]

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Death to Churches Under Islam: A Study of the Coptic Church

May 1, 2013 Featured News

1/5/13 Raymond Ibrahim Christians throughout the Islamic world are under attack. Unlike Muslim attacks on Christians, which are regularly confused with a myriad of social factors, the ongoing attacks on Christian churches in the Muslim world are perhaps the most visible expression of Christian persecution under Islam. In churches, Christians throughout the Islamic world are [...]

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Egyptian police refuse to protect Coptic Christians during gun and machete attack on mourners at cathedral

April 30, 2013 Featured News

  LEON WATSON - 30/4/13 Men with guns, wielding machetes and hurling stones laid siege to cathedral Uniformed officers looked on and appeared to help one gunman take aim Worshippers were streaming out of service held for victims of earlier clash It follows increase in tensions between Egypt’s Christians and Muslims A shocking video has emerged that appears to [...]

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Egypt’s pope says Copts are sidelined

April 27, 2013 Featured News
Pope Tawadros II and Sheikh of the Al-Azhar University, Ahmed el-Tayeb, speak during their meeting in Cairo yesterday. El-Tayeb offered Easter greetings to the pope. Copts will celebrate Easter on May 5

27/4/13 Egypt’s Christians feel sidelined, ignored and neglected by Muslim Brotherhood-led authorities, who proffer assurances but have taken little or no action to protect them from violence, Coptic Pope Tawadros II said. In his first interview since emerging from seclusion after eight people were killed in sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians this month, the [...]

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Protest over Christian persecution in Egypt outside House of Lords

April 23, 2013 Featured News

Alexandra Geels 23/4/13 LONDON, UK April 21: Enraged demonstrators condemned persecution of Coptic Christians outside the House of Lords during a protest demonstration organised by Coptic United on Saturday. Coptic clerics, Human rights activists, leaders of like-minded organisations including Global Minorities Alliance (GMA), a Glasgow-based Human rights organisation’s Chief Executive, Sheraz Khan and others participated [...]

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Egypt jihadist leader warns of Coptic ‘triumph’

April 22, 2013 Featured News
Salafist lead Mohamed El-Zawahiri presents his views on the compatibility of Islam and Islamic Sharia law (Photo: Al-Ahram)

Ahram Online – 22/4/13 Brother of Al-Qaeda leader warns Egypt’s Coptic Christians could take advantage of instability and failure to implement Islamic Sharia law. Mohamed El-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman El-Zawahiri, has warned that the current instability in Egypt is “fertile ground for minorities [Coptic Christians] to ‘triumph’.” Speaking on the ‘El-Hadath El-Masry’ [...]

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Copts’ Uneasy State Relations

April 22, 2013 News
Head of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II (L) leads the Coptic Christmas midnight mass at the Al-Abasseya Cathedral in Cairo on January 6, 2013. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images

22/4/13 Sectarian strife mirrors church–state relations throughout Egypt’s history EGYPT UNWRAPPED blog: Exploring the political and social developments in Egypt as the dust continues to settle on the 25 January uprising and the new political landscape it has formed. “The Muslims and Copts are one hand” was one slogan that could be heard ringing out across [...]

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Even In Desert Retreat, Monks Feel Egypt’S Turmoil

April 20, 2013 News

HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press – 20/4/13 ST. ANTHONY’S MONASTERY, Egypt — In a cave here high in the desert mountains of eastern Egypt, the man said to be the father of monasticism took refuge from the temptations of the world some 17 centuries ago. At the foot of the mountain, the monks at the St. [...]

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Refuge From Egypt Unrest at a Queens Church

April 20, 2013 Featured News

MONIQUE EL-FAIZY – 20/4/13 It’s Tuesday afternoon, and a few dozen of the faithful members of St. Mary and St. Antonios Coptic Orthodox Church in Ridgewood, Queens, are singing in the liturgy during observation of the Great Lent, the 55 days of prayer and fasting that precede Orthodox Easter, on May 5. The women wear [...]

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill receives H.E. Mahmoud Gamil Ahmed ElDieb, Ambassador of Arab Republic of Egypt to Russian Federation

April 16, 2013 Featured News

On 12 April 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with H.E. Mahmoud Gamil Ahmed ElDieb, newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the Russian Federation, at the Patriarchal residence in St Daniel’s Monastery. Taking part in the meeting was also Archpriest Sergiy Zvonarev, DECR [...]

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Out of seclusion, Egypt’s Coptic Pope to meet Khosous victims’ families

April 15, 2013 Featured News

Ahram Online – 154/13 After days in meditative seclusion following violent attacks at Egypt’s main Coptic cathedral, Pope Tawadros II returns to Cairo and will meet families of Al-Khosous victims Monday. For the first time since last week’s sectarian violence in Al-Khosous, Egypt’s Coptic Pope Tawadros II will lead the Sunday Mass prayers in Saint [...]

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Prayer for Egypt held at British Orthodox London Mission

April 14, 2013 Featured News

  The British Orthodox Church – 14/4/13 London: On 13 April 2013 at the British Orthodox London Mission, a Service of Prayer was held for the Church in Egypt following the attacks at Khusous and at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo. Metropolitan Abba Serapihm lead the prayer and Divine Liturgy. Source:  

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Insight: After cathedral clash, Copts doubt future in Egypt

April 12, 2013 Featured News

Ulf Laessing CAIRO 12/4/13 (Reuters) – When Egyptian Christian Kerollos Maher watched on television as petrol bombs and rocks rained on Cairo’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral he had only one thought – emigration. “Egypt is no longer my country,” said the 24-year-old construction worker, standing in the courtyard of the country’s largest cathedral where one Copt and one Muslim [...]

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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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Egypt’s Coptic pope to receive condolences for Al-Khosous victims on Thursday

April 9, 2013 News

Ahram Online 9/4/13 Pope Tawadros II to hold reception for public figures to offer condolences after four Copts killed in recent violence. Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, along with other bishops, will recieve public figures in the papal premises wishing to offer condolences for those killed in recent protests on Thursday, according to the [...]

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Egypt’s President Denounces Violence Outside Coptic Church

April 9, 2013 Featured News

9/4/13 Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi has condemned violence outside Cairo’s main church that left one person dead and dozens more wounded. Clashes erupted after the funerals of four Coptic Christians at St. Mark’s Cathedral on April 7. Mourners leaving the church fought with local residents. Police fired tear gas to break up the violence. State [...]

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Egypt’s pope mourns slain Copts, calls for ‘wisdom, restraint’

April 8, 2013 Featured News

Ahram Online – 7/4/13 In official statement, Pope Tawadros II says he’s in constant touch with Egyptian security officials as clashes resume outside Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral. As clashes persisted in the vicinity of Cairo’s main Coptic-Christian cathedral in the capital’s Abbasiya district, Coptic Pope Tawadros II issued a statement calling on the Egyptian people [...]

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Deadly Clashes After Coptic Funeral

April 8, 2013 Featured News

8/4/13 One person has died and more than 60 others have been injured in clashes outside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral following a funeral. The memorial service at the cathedral, in the central Cairo neighbourhood of Abbassiya, was being held for four Christians who were killed in sectarian clashes on Friday. Mourners, who were chanting against the [...]

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Copts Denounce Egypt’s Mursi as Violence Erupts at Church

April 8, 2013 News

Tarek El-Tablawy & Salma El Wardany -8/4/13 Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi faced growing turmoil as clashes between Muslims and Christians led to another death after a religious service held for Copts killed in violence the previous two days. The unrest, compounded by a train strike and Egypt’s top judicial body saying it favors the departure of the prosecutor- [...]

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Canada’s first Coptic bishop enthroned in Mississauga

April 8, 2013 News

David Paterson 7/4/13 For anyone who doubted they were watching an historic occasion, a quick scan of the enormous crowd at Mississauga’s Coptic Orthodox cathedral on Saturday would have persuaded them otherwise. Over the sea people crammed into the cathedral on Eglinton Ave. were held aloft smart phones, iPads, cameras — anything that could capture [...]

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