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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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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
3/20/2022 12:22:28 PM
After decades of being closed to visitors, a part of the Babylon fort located within the façade of the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo was inaugurated on Sunday.
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Antiquities
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Greco-Roman
3/1/2022 4:40:39 PM
The archaeological unit at Cairo International Airport — in cooperation with the Cairo Airport Police — seized earlier in the week ten Graeco-Roman and Byzantine coins along with a metal Coptic cross in the possession of a passenger.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/22/2022 8:55:24 PM
Egypt has a major role to play on the African continent, both economically and in deepening its cultural and other connections, writes Ahmad Abdel-Tawwab Sharaf Eldin
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/15/2022 10:02:46 PM
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Egypt
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Society
2/12/2022 3:46:44 PM
Head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II inaugurated on Saturday the Cathedral of Annunciation and the Angel Gabriel in Al-Amal Axis in eastern Alexandria.
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Egypt
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Politics
2/8/2022 9:50:42 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Tuesday issued a decree appointing the first Coptic Christian as president of the country's Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC).
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
2/5/2022 5:00:02 PM
Head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II inaugurated on Saturday the Church of the Virgin and Saint Mary of Egypt in the new Ahalina 2 Residential Project in Cairo’s El-Salam City, the church announced.
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Antiquities
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Coptic
1/9/2022 3:55:55 PM
In celebration of Coptic Christmas and coinciding with the launch of the fourth World Youth Forum, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is organising a temporary exhibit at Sharm El-Sheikh Museum under the title ‘The Holy Family’s Trail in Egypt.’
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Egypt
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Society
1/7/2022 7:58:00 PM
“This year we are delighted. Although attendance is still limited at churches, at least we are allowed to go,” said Marina Gamil, a Coptic Orthodox Christian, adding that churches are doing their best to maximise in-person attendance, including adding outdoor seating.
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Egypt
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Politics
1/6/2022 8:07:29 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi attended on Thursday the Christmas mass ceremony held by the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church at the Nativity of the Christ Cathedral at the New Administrative Capital.
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Egypt
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Society
1/5/2022 8:05:22 PM
Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly paid a visit on Wednesday to the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo to offer Christmas greetings to Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Egyptian cabinet announced.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
1/5/2022 12:43:00 PM
It is impossible to subtract the history of Egypt’s Coptic Christians from mainstream Egyptian history, historian Mohamed Afifi explains in an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/4/2022 8:34:05 PM
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Egypt
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Society
1/4/2022 7:32:55 PM
Al-Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb and Religious Endowments (Awqaf) Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa on Tuesday paid a visit to the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo to offer greetings to Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church on the occasion of Christmas.
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Egypt
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Society
1/4/2022 12:13:00 PM
Thursday 6 January will be a paid day off for public sector workers on the occasion of the Coptic Orthodox Christmas, which falls on 7 January, according to a decree issued by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly.
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Egypt
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Society
1/2/2022 5:46:00 PM
Like Orthodox churches around the world, Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on 7 January, according to the Julian Calendar.
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Egypt
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Society
1/2/2022 4:22:56 PM
Pope Tawadros II, the Pope of Alexandria and the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, inaugurated on Saturday evening the completed renovations at St Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria, which was the target of a terrorist attack on Palm Sunday in 2017.
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Egypt
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Society
12/31/2021 4:55:00 PM
The head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II will lead on Friday evening New Year’s mass at St Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria, local reports cited the cathedral as saying.
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