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 […]
EGYPT: COPTIC CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS, PONDER CHANGING DATE
MINA NADER and JACOB WIRTSCHAFER, of Religion News Service, report…
Coptic bishop found dead
World Watch Monitor A Coptic bishop has been found dead inside a desert monastery in Egypt’s Beheira governorate, with the circumstances of his death still unknown, reports AP. Bishop Epiphanius, 64, was the head of St Macarius Monastery, which is situated near the town of Wadi El Naturn, 100 kilometres north-west of Cairo, and is the […]