Displaying 1 - 10 of 13.
Seven sit-ins were staged in Egypt’s churches in 2007. The following lines describe some of them and Christian clergymen and laymen’s reactions to them.
The author attacks a satellite TV channel MTA, saying it aims at distorting the principles of Islam.
The author – Minerva Sa‘d – reports on the phenomenon of numerous churches getting involved in displaying promotions for the U.S. green card lottery and some churches providing a service of filling in online applications for people. The author then wonders whether churches encourage Christians to...
AWR visited Father Mattá to hear about the sectarian violence in Jabal al-Tayr, Minia. Al-Miṣrī al-Yawm interviewed Bishop Bīshūy, General Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
The author questions who the next pope will be and looks at different actors in the Coptic Orthodox Church, analyzing their opinions regarding amending the regulations for choosing a patriarch.
Waṭanī cultural salon invited the Egyptian liberal thinker Tarek Heggy to a lecture, where he spoke about the current crisis of the Egyptian society in particular and the Arab world in general. Heggy expressed his opinions on the Coptic cause as well as other important issues.
The Coptic Orthodox Church’s discourse about virtue and chastity imposes heavy burdens on Copts and creates serious problems. A priest was promoted to a higher administrative position in the church due to his restricted recommendations of virtue and chastity and his skill in fundraising.
The article gives a brief overview of the history of Armenians in Egypt, who have been living as minorities for hundreds of years. It also shows some aspects of their social life.
This press review deals with criticisms made by a number of Coptic intellectuals against Archbishop Bīshūy, whom Christians term "the iron archbishop." His strict ways have resulted in the defrocking of many priests and 50,000 Christians leaving their Orthodox beliefs.
In an interview with Watanī, Jesuit father Christian Van Nispen speaks about his life in Egypt, how Christians can accept others who have different beliefs and about his latest book ‘Christians and Muslims are brothers before God.’

Pages

Subscribe to