Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Pope Frances sent Pope Tawadros a letter marking the second year since they met in the Vatican in 2013. Pope Frances reportedly stressed that their shared faith unites the two parishes now more than any time in the past. Remembering the Christians who have recently been killed in the Middle East,...
Date of source: Friday, December 25, 2015
Egypt’s Christian denominations are close to a consensus over regulations that would govern divorce, remarriage and adoption, which have been at the center of a longtime standoff between clerics and communions, according to a church source.
Date of source: Sunday, June 3, 2012
With a touch of humor throughout, Mgr. Michael Fitzgerald introduced his role as the Vatican Ambassador to Egypt to a delegation of mostly Catholic Austrian students and professors from the University of Vienna. This visit was organized by Arab-West Report and was also attended by some staff and...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The German Catholic organization Missio asked Arab-West Report about Migration, dialogue and socio-pastoral challenges for Christians in Egypt. Father Douglas May, MM, A U. S. Catholic priest’s perspective based on 18 of the last 30 years in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III is often praised, in particular by his own followers, for his ecumenical stances. The reality is, however, somewhat different, as the decisions of the Coptic Orthodox Holy Synod show. All synod meetings were presided over by Pope Shenouda, a strong and charismatic...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Pope Shenouda, the controversial yet beloved head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, passed away on Saturday after 40 years of leading and reforming the ancient Christian communion. His death complicates the uncertain position of Orthodox believers—who represent 90 percent of Egyptian...
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2012
Clergymen of the Orthodox and Catholic churches, provoked by the decision, met to agree on a statement to distance themselves from the "Evangelical church's actions that violate the teachings of the forefathers and the faith."
A memo is reportedly being in the making to set a new way of dealing...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
An Egyptian Coptic delegation flew to Lebanon on November 14 to attend the first conference organized by the European Union (EU) to discuss the conditions of Christians in the Middle East region.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church had demanded from the Cabinet to present it with the Unified Law for Building Houses of Worship.
A church source assured that the cathedral refuses the idea of financial supervision of the church, because the church does not get donations from the State but from...
Date of source: Friday, July 30, 2010
Pope Shenouda insisted that the Secular Copts group who recently proposed a draft personal status law neither represents the Coptic Orthodox people nor the Church.