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Date of source: Thursday, October 22, 2020
In unified statements circulated to churches, Bishop Murqus, archbishop of Shubrā al-Khayma, and Bishop Makarios [Mākariyūs], bishop of al-Minyā and Abū Qurqāṣ, called Copts to vote in the parliamentary elections. They said that the church calls on all of its people to go to the polls to cast...
Pope Tawāḍrūs: Priesthood is not a presidency and a vanity, but humility without pride or domination
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2019
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria, Patriarch of the See of St Mark, affirmed that the vocation of the priesthood is not simple, pointing to those who already have families and children share with them all in this devotion and burdens of service.
Date of source: Friday, August 2, 2019
It’s been one year since the Holy Synod Monastic Affairs Committee issued its 12 revolutionary decrees on regulating monastic life against the backdrop of the murder of Bishop Epiphaniyūs, Abbot of the Saint Macarius [Makāriyyūs] Monastery in Wādī al-Naṭrūn.
The decrees were announced following a...
Date of source: Monday, September 30, 2019
The Secretariat of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church has introduced a questionnaire for monks across various parishes, the Churches of Saint Mark, and servants of the Church regarding the selection process for monks and their preparation for monasticism, as well as their relationship...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark, held a meeting with New Jersey priests and their families as part of his current pastoral visit to the United States, which began on September 13, and is scheduled to last for several weeks.
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2018
In his column this week, the journalist and writer ʿImād al-Dīn Ḥusayn tackles the reformation path of the Coptic Orthodox Church under the ministry of Pope Tawāḍrūs II:
The aftermath of Bishop Epiphaniyūs’ murder, the abbot of The Monastery of Saint Makarius in Wādī al-Naṭrūn, many people believe...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 13, 2017
While many monks and priests welcomed the decision of Pope Tawādrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Holy See of St. Mark to prohibit monks from holding confessions of the believers, and assigning the practice of this sacrament only to priests, some others expressed their reservations on...
Date of source: Friday, May 7, 2010
The article covers the weekly sermon of Pope Shenouda of Alexandria.
Date of source: Sunday, October 22, 2006
This letter to the editor says how Bishop Bīshūy is largely viewed amongst
Christians as an arrogant, self-assertive person.
Date of source: Sunday, August 20, 2006
The author reviews
a book by an angry Copt, whose nom de
guerre is "Christian Guevara," in which he criticized priests in the Coptic
Orthodox Church and their
shallow interests in attacking a movie they thought derided their sanctities while doing
nothing about, for
instance, the problem of...
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