Saudi Crown Prince makes ‘unprecedented’ visit to Coptic Pope
World Watch Monitor On his first public trip abroad as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salmanon on Monday visited close ally Egypt and met the leader of the Coptic Church, Reuters reports. Saudi’s al-Arabiya TV channel showed Prince Mohammed and Pope Tawadros II walking together in Cairo’s St Mark’s Cathedral. The meeting that […]
EGYPT: CHRISTIANS KEY TO SUPPORT FOR EL-SISSI IN UPCOMING ELECTION
JACOB WIRTSCHAFFER and MINA NADER, of Religion News Service, report…
Egyptian church celebrates long-awaited official opening
World Watch Monitor A Coptic church in Minya, Upper Egypt, was officially allowed to open last week for the first time since it was built in 2015, and three months after clashes with local Muslims had forced it to close indefinitely. The Holy Virgin and Mar Girgis church in the village of Sheikh Alaa had […]
PAPAL VISIT: COPTIC ORTHODOX POPE TAWADROS II BRINGS MESSAGE OF PEACE AND HOPE IN FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT TO AUSTRALIA
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II was recently in Australia for a 10 day official visit – this first to the country as Pope. DAVID ADAMS had an audience with His Holiness at the Coptic Orthodox Church’s new base in Melbourne…
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II to open new Coptic HQ in Melbourne on first Australian tour
Pope Tawadros II meeting with Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle. PICTURE: David Adams A new headquarters for the Coptic Orthodox Church in Melbourne will be officially opened by the head of the church, Pope Tawadros II, on Sunday. The Pope arrived in the city this week as part of his first official tour of Australia which […]
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II to visit Australia at end of August
Pope Tawadros II, the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, will visit Australia at the end of the month. The 10 day visit, which begins on 30th August, will include meetings with the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian as well as see him visit churches and schools in both […]
COPTS: SOLIDARITY FOR EGYPT’S BELEAGUERED CHRISTIANS DURING FIRST COPTIC PAPAL VISIT TO UK
World Watch Monitor reports on the first visit by Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II to the UK…
ENGAGEMENT WITH ISLAM: FRANCIS AND BENEDICT – TWO POPES, TWO DIVERGENT APPROACHES
CHRISTOPHER LAMB, in an article published by Religion News Service, looks at the two different approaches taken by Pope Benedict XVI and his papal successor, Pope Francis, to engaging with Islam…
World Council of Churches says Catholic and Coptic Orthodox churches’ baptism agreement a “sign of hope”
The World Council of Churches has welcomed the signing of an agreement under which the Catholic Church and Coptic Orthodox Church will recognise each other’s baptisms as a “sign of hope”. Roman Catholic Pope Francis and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II signed the agreement on Friday during Pope Francis’ two day visit to Egypt. The agreement […]
BACKGROUNDER: WHO ARE THE COPTS AND WHY ARE THEY PERSECUTED?
MONIQUE EL-FAIZY, in an article first published on Religion News Service, takes a deeper look at the Copts…