OCP News Service - 5/9/21 Cairo-Egypt: Singing by the Coptic Orthodox Choir on the Cairo Metro has sparked controversy regarding the expression of faith and religious intolerance in the country. The video of the signing went viral. Nabila Makram, the Egyptian Minister for Immigration and Expatriates’ Affairs shared the video on her Facebook account as part ...
OCP News Service - 11/8/21 Cairo-Egypt: Restoration work at the historic Virgin Mary Coptic Monastery in Egypt has sparked controversy. Many Coptic faithful have harshly criticised the covering of the floor of the ancient Monastery chapel with ceramic tiles. The monastery and its chapel underwent renovation last year and reopened on the 1st of August 2021. However, ...
OCP News Service - 23/4/21 Cairo-Egypt: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the notorious Islamic terrorist group beheaded 62-year-old Nabil Habashi Salama, a Coptic Christian. Nabil was kidnapped five months, hence it is not sure when the beheading took place. Nabil was a Coptic Orthodox faithful and was instrumental in building the only church in Bir ...
Basilica News Agency - Aurelian Iftimiu- 29/12/2020 His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel attended the Divine Liturgy at the historical chapel of his patriarchal residence on the Sunday after the Nativity of the Lord. His Beatitude explained the gospel passage’s spiritual meanings about the Flight of the Child Jesus into Egypt in his homily. Egypt, a country of idolatry and slavery, ...
Dr. Ashraf Ramelah - Voice of the Copts - 14/12/2020 On Anniversary of Egypt’s Maspero Massacre, Christian Copts continue to give Al-Sisi a pass This autumn marked the ninth anniversary of the brutal murders of innocent Christian Copts in a tragedy known as the Maspero Massacre when thousands of peaceful Copts and Muslims gathered on October 9, ...
SVOTS - 18/10/2020 Saint Vladimir’s Seminarian Deacon Andrew Eskandar was born and raised in Egypt until the age of thirteen when his parents decided to move with Dn. Andrew and his two sisters to America to offer their children a more stable future. Since then, Dn. Andrew has lived in Staten Island, NY, where he is ...
Hetq.am - 16/09/2020 Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsaknayan, who is on an official visit to Egypt, today met with the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark Pope Tawadros II. The foreign ministry issued the following statement on the meeting. Touching upon the issue of religious-community cooperation, Minister Mnatsakanyan ...
Raymond Ibrahim - 11/9/2020 “Raymond Ibrahim on the Bottom-Up Oppression of Egypt’s Christians,” a summary of my recent Middle East Forum webinar by Gary C. Gambill, general editor at the Forum, was published on August 27, 2020. It follows: Raymond Ibrahim, a Judith Friedman Rosen fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman fellow at the David Horowitz ...
Followers of Jesus - 2/9/2020 A movie on the life of Saint Mina the Coptic Orthodox Martyr of Egypt with English Subtitles. Source:
Coptic Solidarity - Raymond Ibrahim - 20/11/2019 Last week the Egyptian court system denied justice to Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Christian minority by again postponing judgment on two notorious cases that have been at court for years. The first concerns Soa‘d Thabet, a 70-year-old Coptic grandmother. On May 20, 2016, a mob of some 300 Muslim men descended on her ...
Coptic Solidarity - Raymond Ibrahim - 3/4/19 On Sunday, March 17, the ruling court in Minya, Egypt, recused itself and stepped down from two ongoing cases concerning the victimization and killing of Coptic Christians. Due to this unexpected move, both cases—which had already been at court three as six years—must now be retried anew, a process that will ...
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate - 31/1/19 On January 30, 2019, His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II visited his brother in Christ His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark for the Coptic Orthodox Church, at the Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbassia District in Cairo, Egypt. In his address, ...
Raymond Ibrahim - August 2018 Last month I chaired a panel at Coptic Solidarity’s ninth annual conference, held in Washington, D.C. The panel was titled and dedicated to exploring “Government, Media and Societal Denial and Deception” concerning the persecution of Egypt’s Christian minority. Also on the panel were: Robert Herman, Senior Advisor for Policy, Freedom House; Mansour al-Hadj, ...
OCP News Service - 31/7/18 +Memory Eternal+ Egypt: His Grace Bishop Anba Epiphanius - Abbot of the Monastery of St. Macarius in Wadi al-Natroun was found dead in a pool of blood. Fractures were found on his skull as if the late Bishop was hit with some instrument. The Egyptian authorities have started an official investigation into ...
Orthochristian.com - 25/7/18 At least 80 have died and at least another 180 have been injured by the wildfires raging in Greece for several days already, making it the deadliest fire on record in Greece. Scores more have fled, and many are desperately searching for their loved ones. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has declared three days of ...
The Jerusalem Patriarchate - 27/6/18 On Monday, June 12/25, 2018, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of our Father among the Saints Onuphrios of Egypt, at the his Holy Monastery which is located at a short distance from the Biblical Siloam pool in East Jerusalem. This district is also named “The potter’s field”, because it on the field that ...
Justgiving - DEACON DANIEL MALYON - Delegate of United Kingdom of OCP - 25/6/18 Donate to Deacon Daniel Maylon here UK: As someone involved in Education and in the Coptic Orthodox Church, I feel both causes are close to my heart. With this in mind, I have decided to raise money for the St Kyrel Trust. St Kyrel Trust ...
Coptic Solidarity - Raymond Ibrabim - 20/6/18 From attacks by Muslim mobs to closures by Muslim authorities, the lamentable plight of Coptic Christian churches in Egypt always follows a pattern, one that is unwaveringly only too typical. Thus, last April 14, a Muslim mob—predictably riled by the previous day’s Friday mosque sermons—attacked the church of the Holy Virgin ...
Coptic Orthodox Church UK- 16/5/18 Comment by His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London : Bodies of Libya Martyrs Repatriated to Egypt After months of waiting, the Coptic Libya Martyrs were finally repatriated to their homeland of Egypt yesterday. They were received by His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See ...
Church of Serbia - 16/5/18 The Holy Prophet Jeremiah, one of the four great Old Testament prophets, was son of the priest Helkiah from the city of Anathoth near Jerusalem, and he lived 600 years before the Birth of Christ, under the Israelite king Josiah and four of his successors. He was called to prophetic service ...
Church of Serbia - 11/5/18 The Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark, also known as John Mark (Acts 12:12), was one of the Seventy Apostles, and was also a nephew of Saint Barnabas (June 11). He was born at Jerusalem. The house of his mother Mary adjoined the Garden of Gethsemane. As Church Tradition relates, on the ...