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The Coptic Orthodox Church, led by Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark extended congratulations to President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on the commencement of a new presidential term.
The donation was made in the name of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria and entire Africa, the ministry said in a statement Saturday.
Many Christians will celebrate in the upcoming few days the closing ceremony of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in churches across Egypt.
Pope Tawadros to visit the Vatican in the coming weeks, to meet his holiness Pope Francis.
The church will organize work between the Christian churches through many activists such as spiritual, intellectual or mathematical meetings as well as meetings for women and youth.
The matter of divorces amongst the Coptic community in Egypt has been one of the most troubling issues in the church since 2008; the year in which Pope Shenouda lll of Alexandria proclaimed that divorce must be on the grounds of adultery.
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa met with Pope Tawadros II on Friday at St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbasiya.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi extended his Easter wishes to Coptic Orthodox Christians domestically and abroad.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is “pleasant, open-minded, cultured and visionary,” Coptic Pope Tawadros II said in a Monday statement.
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The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt announced its unremitting support for the comprehensive Military Operation of Sinai 2018.
The Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches in Egypt affirm their neutrality in the upcoming presidential election.
Palestinians protesting church land sales to Israelis scuffled with Palestinian police in Bethlehem Saturday.
Egypt has three main Christian denominations: the Orthodox, the Catholic and the Protestant or Evangelical, each sect celebrates Christmas on a different date.
More than 2,000 Jews joined Israel's chief rabbis at Jerusalem's Western Wall on Thursday to pray for rain as the country faces a fourth straight dry winter.
The head of the Kiev-based Ukrainian Orthodox Church has called on Russian Patriarch Kirill to end "confrontation" between the two institutions.
The Orthodox church, condemned a killing of policemen in a shootout in the desert of Wahat.
Tens of thousands of Orthodox pilgrims gathered at Christianity's most holy site to mark Easter in Jerusalem
