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Egypt’s Coptic Christians will learn the name of their new pope on Sunday, when a blindfolded child selects the name of one of three candidates. The BBC is reporting that Two bishops and a monk...
According to a respected Middle Eastern journalist, Mary Abdelmassih, writing for Assyrian International News Agency (www. www.aina.org), a Muslim gang in Egypt has attempted to kidnap a Christian mother, and their attack left four dead....
Google+Mohammad Mostafa Kamel, a Muslim prosecutor at the Alexandria Criminal Court, and his two sons, aided by some hired Muslims, broke into the church of the St. Mary in Rashid and demolished a large portion...
Google+Demands raised this week by Islamists in the Constituent Assembly, which is drafting the new Egyptian constitution, for placing the Church’s funds under state financial control were categorically rejected by church leaders and Copts at...
After reading what happened during the “Mass March by Cairo Women in Protest Over Abuse by Soldiers” (New York Times, December 20, 2011), I am baffled, not by the Egyptian army, acting like any army...
Google+The Egyptian attorney general has reopened the investigation into the bombing of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve, which killed 24 Copts and injured more than 90. In a story for...
It seems that no amount of freedom and democracy will help the Christian minority in Egypt. The loose order of things and the chaos we live can only be expected in a country still torn...
Google+A group of Muslims attacked Ayman Anwar Mitri, a Christian Coptic man in the Upper Egyptian town of Qena, cutting off his ear. According to a story by Mary Abdelmassih of the Assyrian International News...
Google+Christian protestors who staged a nine-day sit-in calling for the rebuilding of a church torched by Islamists have come under attack by the Egyptian army. According to a news release from Barnabas Aid, the demonstrators...
According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a UK-based human rights organization, a group of at least 200 refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, who fled to Egypt from Benghazi in Libya around three days ago,...
Despite attacks on Coptic monasteries last week and demonstrations by Christians against the governor in Upper Egypt on Saturday, missionaries assisted by Christian Aid Mission here say they remain upbeat and hopeful about the future....
The Egyptian uprising has left Coptic Orthodox monasteries exceedingly vulnerable, as the police who normally guard the monasteries have either deserted their posts or been redeployed to the cities. Exploiting the security vacuum, Arab raiders,...
I can’t identify a specific time in my life when I gave my life to Jesus. It seems that I have always been a Christian, having grown up in a Christian family, and being used...
As the SAT-7 team in Egypt captured the unfolding of recent events in the streets of Cairo, they noted a fascinating aspect that arose out of the Christmas Eve sectarian violence. That event gave way...
The rapidity of change sweeping the Middle East has left some commentators breathless, with many cheerleading the prospects for democratic reforms in Egypt and other Middle East countries. But hopes for benevolent democracies that conform...
Middle East journalist, Mary Abdelmassih, is reporting that on Tuesday, September 7, 2010, at 8 PM a 300-man security force, backed by a large number of cars and armored vehicles, attacked the monastery of St....
A Coptic Christian blogger arrested in Egypt on false charges of insulting Islam, then held for almost two years without charge under the country’s Emergency Law, has been released from prison. Hani Nazeer, 31, a...
The unexplained disappearance of a Coptic priest’s wife in Upper Egypt has led today a sit-in staged by thousands of Copts at the Coptic Patriarchate in Cairo, to protest what they consider “collusion by the...
The latest in a string of failed attempts by Muslim fanatics on the life of Egyptian Muslim-born Maher el-Gowhary who publicly converted to Christianity in 2008, took place on Sunday July 5, 2010. This has...
