Date of source: Wednesday, August 21, 2002
More than two million Muslims and Christians celebrated the mulid of the Holy Virgin in Durunka monastery, in Assiut. Bishop Mikhail of Assiut expressed his appreciation and happiness at the great efforts the governorate exerts to develop religious places and places for tourism in Assiut.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
Visiting Holy Family locations in Upper Egypt; Minia, al-Qussia, Deir Rifa, Shutb.
Tensions in Beni Walmis.
Anglican Bishop Kenneth Cragg’s opinion on how to approach Muslims as a Christian.
Date of source: Thursday, May 6, 2004
A priest and two members of the church board of Taha al-‘Ameda died after an accident with a speeding car driven by a police officer in the early hours of Sunday May 2. Problems started after six meters of a poorly built fence the old Mar Mina church in Taha al-‘Ameda collapsed because of a strong...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2004
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...
Date of source: Friday, December 28, 2001
Christianity Today published a cover page article of Cornelis Hulsman about the Coptic Orthodox tradition of the Flight to Egypt. The article is presented in this issue of the RNSAW with permission of Christianity Today. You will find here the text before it was edited by Christianity Today. It is...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
This article speaks about the different apparitions of the Holy Virgin that were reported to have taken place in the Church of Saint Mark in Assiut, last year, and in the Holy Virgin monastery at Durunka, this year. At the end of the article, the author raises questions about this apparition.
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Muslims and Christians commemorate the anniversary of Virgin Mary. We all honor and pay homage to the lady who is honored by all religions as the best woman on earth. The Coptic church has lately celebrated the ascension of Virgin Mary in a very unique Egyptian style that usually turns rituals into...
Date of source: Thursday, January 7, 1999
A detailed description of the route of the Holy Family from place to place.
Date of source: Monday, April 27, 1998
Rose el-Yousef describes the conflict between a Coptic Orthodox bishop and the people of a village in his diocese who wanted him to consecrate the son of the village priest as priest which the bishop refused. The Pope responded by taking this village and two other villages away from his diocese.