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The recent intensive conference seminars, which were supposed to be on doctrine, attacked several Coptic figures and church symbols, including as Father Mattá al-Maskīn, father Ibrāhīm ‘Abd al- Sayyid and Max Michel.
Bāsimah William writes about the celebrations of the feast of the Virgin Mary at Dayr al-Azrā’ in Jabal Assiut, which does not attract only Christians, but also Muslims and people from all over the world.
The annual celebrations of the feast of the Virgin Mary at Dayr al-Azrā’ attracted millions of Muslims and Christians and boosted economic activities in the city of Assiut.
The governor of Assiut stated that more than 2 million people, including foreigners from 25 European countries and Egyptian Muslims and Christians, would visit Durunka Monastery to celebrate the day of the Virgin Mary.
Pope Shenouda’s efforts have succeeded in solving the problem of the Fayoum Monastery’s priests. The crisis started when the Fayoum priest, Abrām, realized that the nine priests were violating the laws of priesthood in many ways, such as eating alone although the laws demand that they share.
Dr. Gawdat Gabra will be teaching a course on Coptic Monasticism in the Spring semester at the American University in Cairo (AUC). The course provides a general survey of Coptic monasticism.
Tāriq al-Qādī believes that the path of the Holy Family could serve as a major tourist attraction in Egypt.
When I. visited the monastery of the Holy Virgin on the Western Mountain of Dronka in Assiut, I saw at the foot of the mountain a vast area covered with gloomy brushwood. The monastery tried hard to clean up the area and cultivate it with timber-producing woods—watered by the drained water—but the...
The Bishop of Tanta stressed that there was no difference between the children of Egypt [Muslims and Christians], pointing out the support the state gives to the building and restoration of churches.
The Virgin Mary church in Zeitoun is a relatively small building that is surrounded by a small garden in which the Virgin tree is located. This church had only a very small congregation, but after the Virgin Mary appeared everything changed and thousands of visitors started to come to the church...

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