Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Ongoing violence and social and political crisis rocking the Middle East has prompted the religious communities in the region rethink forms of presence in order to meet the…
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Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Coptic Orthodox Christian, Hala Shukrallah, elected head of the Constitution Party, is the first woman leader of a political party in Egypt. Hala Shukrallah succeeds Nobel Mohamed El…
News coverage emerging from various media sources incorrectly states that His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, and Saudi Ambassador Ahmed Kattan, met…
February 17, 2014 By Our Middle East Correspondent – Morning Star News CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – More than a week after a Muslim went on an anti-Christian rampage in Upper…
Cairo, February 19, 2014 (Zenit.org) | By Oliver Maksan, Aid to the Church in Need The year 2013 was not a good year for Egypt’s Christians. The wave of violence that engulfed…
A Christian Syrian family living in Alexandria, Egypt, was barbarically stabbed to death Monday in their home in the al-Ibrahimya neighborhood, Arabic media are reporting. The family consisted of a father, 44,…
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II received the representatives of the Delegation of the European Union present in Egypt on Tuesday evening, February 11th. The meeting with the Patriarch,…
By Samuel Tadros, Research Fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom This essay is an excerpt from the Hoover Press book Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity. The…
By Sonja Corbitt, http://www.catholic.org, Posted 2014-02-07 02:53 GMT NASHVILLE, TN — “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream” (Amos 5:24). Although it has fallen largely on deaf…