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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/16/2024 9:05:00 AM
In a remarkable archaeological discovery, the Edfu Temple in Upper Egypt has revealed, for the first time, a new section of its original hieroglyphic inscriptions and coloured scenes, shedding new light on the religious practices of ancient Egyptian priests during the Ptolemaic period.
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Paris 2024
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News
7/26/2024 11:11:41 AM
The Canadian Olympic Committee removed women's national soccer head coach Bev Priestman for the remainder of the Paris Games following an alleged drone spying scandal.
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World
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International
6/24/2024 10:32:06 AM
More than 15 police officers and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, were killed by armed militants in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan on Sunday, its governor Sergei Melikov said in a video statement early Monday.
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World
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International
6/23/2024 10:49:26 PM
Gunmen on Sunday attacked a synagogue and churches, killing a priest and six police officers in Russia's Caucasus region of Dagestan, the national counter-terrorism agency and police said.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
3/31/2024 1:45:05 PM
Today marks the first of five Sundays over March and April with great significance in the Coptic Orthodox Church.
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World
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Africa
6/21/2023 10:28:56 AM
An Orthodox Christian priest, Tesfa Kiros Meresfa begs door-to-door for food along with countless others recovering from a two-year war in northern Ethiopia that starved his people. To his dismay, urgently needed grain and oil have disappeared again for millions caught in a standoff between Ethiopia's government, the United States and United Nations over what U.S. officials say may be the biggest theft of food aid on record.
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World
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International
1/26/2023 11:52:48 AM
The southern Spanish city of Algeciras was reeling Thursday, a day after a machete-wielding assailant stormed into two churches killing a verger and badly injuring a priest.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
1/2/2023 1:49:09 PM
A recently recovered ancient Egyptian artefact known as the “Green Coffin” was returned on Monday from the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences in the United States after it had been smuggled illegally outside of Egypt.
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World
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Africa
9/18/2022 2:47:22 PM
Five priests, a nun and two churchgoers were kidnapped by attackers who set fire to a church in western Cameroon, the Catholic Church said Sunday, the latest violence in an area hit by bloody conflict between anglophone separatists and the state.
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Egypt
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Society
7/17/2022 5:21:25 PM
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese led the Sunday mass at Holy Virgin Of Zeitoun Coptic Orthodox Church in Vienna with the participation of a large number of priests and Copts in Austria.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
6/11/2022 2:57:58 PM
An Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced on Saturday a 60-year-old man to death for murdering Coptic Orthodox priest Arsanios Wadid last month in the Egyptian coastal city.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
5/18/2022 8:17:17 PM
An Alexandria criminal court issued on Wednesday a preliminary death sentence against a 60-year-old man convicted of murdering Coptic priest Arsanios Wadid last month.
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Egypt
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Society
4/22/2022 8:41:18 PM
Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Sea of Saint Mark, led Good Friday mass at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo's Abbasiya district, attended by hundreds of worshipers and a host of bishops and priests.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
4/20/2022 11:09:45 AM
The Public Prosecution referred on Tuesday the man accused of murdering Coptic priest Arsanios Wadid last week to stand trial on charges of deliberate murder and possesion of a cold weapon, affirming that he was "fully cognizant" of his actions at the time of the incident.
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Egypt
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Society
4/14/2022 12:43:12 PM
In his weekly sermon on Wednesday, Head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II mourned Coptic Priest Arsanios Wadid who was murdered in Alexandria last Friday, demanding authorities work on maintaining societal peace especially concerning “religion issues.”
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
4/12/2022 9:19:02 PM
Thousands of people on Saturday mourned the death of a Coptic priest who was murdered in Alexandria on Friday night.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
4/9/2022 12:39:28 PM
The Public Prosecution ordered the detention of the man accused of murdering Arsanios Wadid — the Coptic priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary and Mar Boulos in Alexandria — for four days pending investigations.
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Egypt
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Society
4/8/2022 5:24:33 PM
Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church held on Friday a funeral for late Coptic Archpriest Arsanios Wadid who was stabbed to death in the city of Alexandria Thursday evening.
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Egypt
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Society
4/8/2022 1:11:22 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb offered his condolences on Thursday to Head of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros and Christians over the murder of Arsanios Wadid, the Priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary and Mar Boulos in Alexandria.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
4/8/2022 1:02:08 AM
Egyptian security forces have arrested a 60-year-old man who reportedly stabbed a Coptic archpriest to death in the city of Alexandria on Thursday evening.
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