Tag: egypt

The Long-Suffering Copts

Fr John Salter writes, in Chrysostom, Pascha 2011: Of the so-called Monophysite Churches the Copts and the Armenians have borne untold suffering for the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The fifteen centuries of…

Zenit Interview with Coptic Catholic Patriarch

Tony Assaf interviews Patriarch Antonios Cardinal Naguib ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, FEB. 11, 2011 with thanks to Zenit.org. The people of Egypt, and in particular its Christians, are looking for a better future, says…

Patriarch Gregorios’ Visit to Alexandria and Egypt

Back from Cairo, Gregorios III says, “We are living God’s today.” H.B. Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, is back from Cairo, where, as…

St Mary of Egypt and Other Saints

Thursday 17th March 2011 St Anselm’s Roman Catholic Church, Tooting Bec Road, London SW17 8BS. Nearest tube: Tooting Bec 6.15 pm Mass 7.00 pm Talk by Father George Christidis, followed by light…

Egyptian Christians Hope for Global Solidarity

Interview With Orthodox Coptic Bishop Barnabas El Soryany By Serena Sartini ROME, JAN. 12, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Though forgiveness is the way to respond to the Jan. 1 attack on an Orthodox Coptic…

Pope Benedict condemns attacks on Coptic Christians

VATICAN CITY, JAN. 6, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The 1st January 2011 bombing at the Coptic Church of the Saints in Alexandria that claimed the lives of 21 people leaving the Liturgy is a “despicable act of…

Zenit Interview with Patriarch Antonios of the Catholic Copts

Interview With Patriarch Antonios Naguib By Michaela Koller ROME, MARCH 30, 2010, thanks to Zenit.org The slaying of six Orthodox Christians leaving a Christmas Eve Mass in Egypt has wounded Christians’ sense…

Special Synod for the Middle East

Zenit.org carries here the Lineamenta, or Guidelines, now agreed for the Special Synod on the Catholic Churches in the Middle East, which will take place in October 2010. The theme will be…

Patriarch Gregorios III Visits Alexandria

The visit of His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III to Alexandria, 8-11 January 2010 His Beatitude arrived on the evening of Friday 8 January at the Patriarchal Residence in Fleming, Alexandria. He went…