Pope urges countries to manage migrant waves, expand legal channels; recognises 21 Copts beheaded by Islamic State as martyrs
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis appealed to countries on Thursday to manage waves of migrants as best they can and to expand channels for their safe and regular movement, as the United States grapples with a surge of new arrivals at its southern border. Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II, the 118th Pope of the Coptic […]
In the aftermath of tragedy: Family struck by grief after it loses six in Egypt church fire
SAMY MAGDY, of Associated Press, reports on the tragedy facing Coptic Orthodox Christian families in the wake of a church fire in Giza earlier this month which claimed tha lives of 19 children…
Egypt high court upholds death sentence for former monk
Cairo, EgyptAP Egypt’s highest court on Wednesday upheld a death sentence for a former monk convicted of killing an abbot in a desert monastery north of Cairo in 2018. The Court of Cassation also reduced a death sentence against another former monk to life in prison. A priest walks in front of St Samuel the […]
ESSAY: MUBARAK’S LASTING LEGACY ON EGYPT’S COPTIC CHRISTIANS
In an article first published on The Conversation, JAMALI RAMAZAN KILINC, associate professor of political science at the University of Nebraska Omaha in the US, looks at the history of the fraught relationships between the Coptic Church and those in power in Egypt…
Biggest Christian cathedral in Middle East opens in Egypt
The biggest Christian cathedral in the Middle East was inaugurated in Egypt on Sunday. The newly constructed Coptic cathedral, the Cathedral of the Nativity, was formally opened by Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday, the eve of Coptic Christmas. The President later reportedly attended a midnight Mass which was presided over by Coptic Pope […]
EGYPT: COPTIC CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS, PONDER CHANGING DATE
MINA NADER and JACOB WIRTSCHAFER, of Religion News Service, report…
Seventeen people sentenced to death for Coptic church bomb attacks in Egypt
World Watch Monitor Egypt’s military court has handed death sentences to 17 people accused of bomb attacks on Coptic churches in 2016 and 2017, the BBC reports. The 17 people sentenced to death in Egypt were involved in bomb attacks on Coptic churches in Cairo, Alexandria and Tanta in 2016 and 2017. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor. […]
EGYPT: COPTIC ABBOT’S MURDER POINTS TO STRAINS OVER ECUMENISM
JACOB WIRTSCHAFTER and MINA NADER, writing for Religion News Service, report…
Egypt to pay for Coptic bomb attack victim’s surgery in Germany
World Watch Monitor It’s been 18 months since Coptic Christian Samiha Tawfiq was badly injured in the bomb attack on Cairo’s St Peter and Paul Church, which claimed 27 lives and injured 49. It also took away one side of Samiha’s face. Samiha and her husband Koleny were sitting in the respective women’s and men’s sections of the […]
Families of beheaded Copts finally reunited with remains of loved ones in Egypt
World Watch Monitor After a three-year wait and a number of broken promises, the Egyptian Coptic families of 20 men beheaded by the so-called Islamic State in Libya in 2015 have finally received their loved ones’ remains. The leader of the Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II, accompanied by several bishops, priests and deacons, welcomed the […]