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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
4/13/2025 11:40:00 AM
Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church is working to unify the date of Easter celebrations across all Christian denominations.
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Egypt
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Society
3/30/2025 6:02:19 PM
Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned on Sunday the passing of Metropolitan Elder and Acting Patriarch Pakhomious, who died at nearly 90 years old after a lifetime of devoted service to the church and the nation.
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Egypt
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Society
3/16/2025 11:20:26 AM
Head of Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II expressed on Saturday his support for the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) proposal to establish a unified date for Easter celebrations among all Christians worldwide.
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World
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International
2/26/2025 5:36:01 PM
Pope Francis was sitting upright and receiving therapy for double pneumonia Wednesday, the Vatican said, as Argentines, Romans and others kept up the steady stream of prayers for his recovery. Francis remained in critical condition, but the Holy See machinery ground on, with the announcement of new bishops and a new church fundraising initiative.
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World
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International
2/15/2025 8:09:02 PM
Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State, making her essentially the governor of the 44-hectare (108-acre) territory in Rome that is home to the Catholic Church.
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World
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International
2/11/2025 9:41:21 PM
Pope Francis described Donald Trump's migrant deportations as a "major crisis" Tuesday, prompting a rebuke from the US president's border czar, who told the pontiff to "stick to the Catholic Church".
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/26/2025 10:22:10 PM
A delegation from Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church attended the ordination ceremony of His Grace Abuna Basilios as the sixth Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church on Sunday.
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Egypt
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Society
1/6/2025 9:11:18 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi expressed optimism about the new year, saying that "2025 will be better than previous years” as he addressed the devoted at the Coptic Orthodox Christmas Mass ceremony held at the Cathedral of Christ's Nativity in the New Administrative Capital (NAC).
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Egypt
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Society
1/5/2025 11:18:28 PM
Minister of Social Solidarity Maya Morsy and Minister of Local Development Manal Awad attended the Christmas celebration on Sunday organized by the Evangelical Church in Egypt, the cabinet announced.
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Egypt
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Society
1/4/2025 11:16:00 PM
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly issued a decree on Saturday designating Tuesday, 7 January 2025, as an official paid holiday for the public and private sectors.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/25/2024 8:17:16 PM
Only a few hundred Christians remain in Gaza. Like all Gazans, they endure the horrors of war, but they have not abandoned their churches despite Israeli evacuation orders. Today, they are preparing to celebrate Christmas without joy.
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Egypt
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Society
12/24/2024 10:59:29 PM
Egyptian Catholics and Anglicans celebrated Tuesday Christmas masses in churches on the eve of 25 December.
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World
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Region
12/24/2024 10:35:52 PM
Christians gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday to mark a solemn Christmas overshadowed by war, as Pope Francis led mass in the Vatican.
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World
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Region
12/24/2024 10:28:30 PM
Hundreds of Christians in war-ravaged Gaza City gathered at a church on Tuesday, praying for an end to the war that has devastated much of the Palestinian territory.
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Egypt
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Society
12/17/2024 6:33:45 PM
Egypt is on the verge of passing its first personal status law for Christians, marking the culmination of five decades of efforts to address longstanding demands for a cohesive legal framework for Christian families.
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Egypt
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Society
11/29/2024 2:40:21 PM
Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, chaired a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Institute of Coptic Studies' founding in Cairo.
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World
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Region
11/17/2024 12:31:00 AM
On the night of 28 July, under the obscured light of the moon and a rare lull in the relentless exchange of fire between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militias in the war-torn city of Khartoum, a fragile calm enveloped the Church of Our Lady of Mary in the Al-Shajara district.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/6/2024 10:54:00 PM
Pope Tawadros II received the President of Estonia, Alar Karis, and his accompanying delegation on Wednesday at the papal headquarters in Cairo.
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World
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Region
11/2/2024 3:26:10 PM
In the Christian town of Deir al-Ahmar, Hassan Noun has pitched his tent in a church courtyard after fleeing Israeli deadly air strikes in the eastern Lebanese region of Baalbek.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
10/30/2024 8:35:23 PM
Egypt legalized another 293 Christian churches and service buildings operating without a permit.
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