By Ron Prosor, Wall Street Journal Posted 2014-04-18 This week, as Jews celebrate the Passover holiday, they are commemorating the Bible’s Exodus story describing a series of plagues inflicted on ancient Egypt…
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By Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News Posted 2014-04-18 Young Christian women are facing a greater risk of being kidnapped by extremists, tortured, and even forced to convert to Islam since the Arab Spring…
Read online at Rome Reports here: Meet the Pope’s new personal secretary, Yoannis Lahzi Gaid Fr Yoannis has previously featured prominently in Papal Audiences, reading the translations of the Holy Father’s discourse and…
Tel Aviv (Agenzia Fides) – On Friday April 11th about ninety Coptic Christians landed in Tel Aviv with the intention of celebrating Holy Week in Jerusalem and in the Christian Holy Places…
By Cheryl K. Chumley The Washington Times, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 A Coptic Christian woman, 25, was pulled from her car and brutally beaten and stabbed to death by a mob of…
An Islamist attack on a Coptic Church in Cairo on Friday left four people dead. Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood held demonttrations across the country in reaction against the official candidate in…
Where do Coptic Christians stand on Egyptian politics, asks Michael Adel. 27 March 2014 For many Christians in Egypt, the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) was a reason to feel secure…
By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter, March 26, 2014 Violence in Egypt against Coptic Christians has continued despite the fall of former president Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, with believers still…
Assiut (Agenzia Fides) – “The situation is complex. There is the hardness of a judgment that is not final, and we have to wait. In any case, the Church is against the…
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The so-called Arab Spring in reality “was not a spring or even an autumn, it was a winter”. With this judgment without appeal Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II…