By Raghda El Halawany, Special to Weekend Review 24/2/2012 The suffering of Egypt's Christians is there for all to see — their churches have come under attack and people have died — but not the perpetrators. Overlooking the Nile, St Mary Church in the modern Maadi suburb of Cairo held a prayer for all Christian martyrs of the ...
By MIKE ELKIN 30/11/2011 CAIRO — A young woman with a kerchief on her head lit a candle and prayed Sunday beneath a mosaic of Mary and Jesus at a packed Mass at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church. Then she picked up a leaflet next to the candle rack from an organization called Shahid, or Witness. It ...
Emad Khalil 26/11/2011 The Coptic Orthodox Church said Saturday it is not specifying a list of candidates for Coptic adherents to vote for in the upcoming parliamentary elections and is merely calling on Copts to vote. Recent rumors that the church is directing Copts to vote for certain candidates are not true, Bishop Morkos, a member of the ...