One of the oldest books in existence expected to fetch over $US2.6 million at auction
New York City, US Reuters A book from Egypt that was written at the dawn of Christianity and is considered one of the oldest books in existence will go up for auction in June in London. The Crosby-Schoyen Codex – written in Coptic on papyrus around 250-350 AD, and produced in one of the first […]
Egypt court sentences man to death for killing Coptic priest
Cairo, EgyptAP An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced a man to die for the April stabbing death of a Coptic Christian priest in an attack that shocked the Arab world’s most populous nation. Nehru Tawfiq, 60, was convicted in Alexandria criminal court of murder for killing 56-year-old priest Arsanious Wadid and illegal possession of a knife. […]
COMMEMORATION: WITH HOLY OIL AND A PAINT ROLLER – COPTIC ICON PAINTERS WORK ON MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS OF ISLAMIC STATE
In an article first published by the World Council of Churches news service, KATJA DOROTHEA BUCK reports from Egypt on how icon painters are commemorating 21 martyrs killed on a Libyan beach by the so-called Islamic State in early 2015…