COPTIC NATIONALISM IS LIBERATION NATIONALISM – NOT NASTY NATIONALISM
A correspondent wrote to me, urging me to change the title of this website by replacing the word ‘nationalism’. Nationalism has assumed a nasty connotation in the mind of many people, he rightly said....
View ArticleEGYPT MUST BE SEEN AS MULTI-NATIONAL STATE NOT A NATION-STATE
Egypt is not a nation-state. This is our conviction, and we do not buy the deceptive sweet-tongue lies of the Arabs that we are part of the same fabric: warp and weft. For we have never seen a warp of...
View ArticleGOOD TO DECLARE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ORGANISATION AS TERRORIST BY THE...
The news came out today that the U.S. is considering designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation, a move that is frankly over due. The European Union and all the Western Word must...
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SIR RONALD STORRS ON THE PROTESTANTISATION OF THE COPTS AND OTHER EASTERN...
Ronald Storrs (From University of Cambridge Digital Library, Pembroke College Archives) Sir Ronald Henry Amherst Storrs (1881 – 1955) was a British administrator who served the British Empire in...
View ArticleTHE FANATICISM OF THE ‘URABI REBELLION: FORCED CONVERSION TO ISLAM
In his book, Orientations, Sir Ronald Storrs, who worked at the Finance Ministry (1904 – 1909) and Oriental Secretary to the British Agency in Egypt (1909- 1917), relays a story he heard from Girgis...
View ArticleDO NOT ERR ON THE IDENTITY OF EGYPT: IT IS NEITHER ARAB NOR COPT NOR NUBA
The Muslims of Egypt, or most of them, say Egypt is Arab and Muslim country and state. This, they enshrined in their not much respected Constitution to make it illegal to say Egypt is anything else...
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DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEA IN COPTIC
Arms of the University of Oxford, including the famous motto The Latin motto of the University of Oxford, UK, is “Dominus illuminatio mea”, which means, “The Lord is my light”, is taken from the...
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ADORING DICTATORS
The Dictator with his Dog, painting by Deny Pribadi (Acrylic on canvas) Some Copts adore and admire dictators. I have come across some Copts who see in Saddam Hussain, the dictator of Iraq, and...
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WHEN THE COPTIC METROPOLITAN OF ETHIOPIA WENT WITH THE ETHIOPIAN EMPEROR TO...
The Battle of Adwa, oil on canvas, by an unknown Ethiopian artist and no certain date Part of the upper panel, showing Emperor Menelik II Part of the middle panel showing Abuna Mattheos X Part of the...
View ArticleWAS IT RIGHT THAT THE COPTIC BISHOP OF NUBIA AND KHARTOUM LEFT HIS FLOCK...
When Egypt’s Albanian ruler, Muhammad Ali Pasha (1805 – 1848), invaded and occupied Sudan in 1821, he established what is called in the history of Sudan al-Turkiyyah al-Sabiqqa (First Turkish Rule)...
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ABUNE PETROS: AN ETHIOPIAN EXEMPLARY BISHOP FOR ALL COPTIC BISHOPS
Abune Petros, the Ethiopian saint and martyr (1892 – 1936) I would like to introduce to my readers today the Ethiopian saint and martyr, Abune (or Abuna) Petros, who was one of three Ethiopian bishops...
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WHEN THE COPTIC METROPOLITAN OF ETHIOPIA STOOD SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH...
Ethiopian warriors (c. 1770) On 21 January 1872, Lij Kassa Mercha (or Kassa) was crowned Emperor of Ethipopia by the name of Yohannes IV. He proved one of the greatest emperors of that great country,...
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YOU CANNOT BE A COWARD AND CHRISTIAN – TO MY FELLOW COPTS
Inset, Fayum portrait, Egypt, 300-325 AD I address this to my fellow Copts: You cannot be a coward man and woman and Christian at the same time. I am not talking about fear, for fear is a natural...
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THE CAUSE OF THE COPTIC SELECTIVE BRAVERY
The Mirror Has Two Faces, by Lola No one can accuse the Copts of being cowards, but no one can absolutely maintain that they are always brave. In things spiritual, they are brave, and no Church has...
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RARE PHOTO OF THE COPTIC METROPOLITAN OF ETHIOPIA, ABUNA MATTHEOS X, WITH...
Abuna Mattheos, Coptic Metropolitan of Ethiopia, with Ras Tafari Makonnen (Emperor Haile Selassie I later) in 1925 The above rare photograph by the Herman Ullstein Bild was taken in 1925. It shows the...
View ArticleOUR COPTNESS IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT MASTERING COPTIC
Coptness can be defined as the state or quality of being a Copt, or the Coptic character. Coptness includes things like being a descendent of the ancient Egyptians and pride in their history,...
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SIR JOHN BOWRING ON THE COPTS
John Bowring, possibly in 1830s Sir John Bowring (1792 – 1872) was an English politician, political economist, diplomat, and traveller. He belonged to the Radical group of politicians, and pursued a...
View ArticleHOW THE MUSLIMS OF EGYPT USED TO MURDER COPTS AT SHAMM AL-NASIM FEAST
The Copts have suffered unimaginable persecution, oppression, and humiliation by the Muslims of Egypt like no nation has ever suffered from any people in power. The person who wants to get to know...
View ArticleTHE COPTIC TEST OF MANHOOD
Are you a man? That’s: are you a man or a coward? And the question is directed to my fellow Copts. If you had lived at the time if the Arab invasion of Egypt in 639 AD, would you have fought against...
View ArticleTHE COPTS AND COPTIC BISHOPS MAY LEARN A THING OR TWO FROM SYNESIUS BISHOP OF...
Synesius of Cyreneca (c. 373 – 414) was a Greek from Pentapolis in present day Libya. He was a Neo-Platonic philosopher who turned Christian later. He was married to an Egyptian wife and had three sons...
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