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HAPPY NEW YEAR! WHAT WAS THE GREATEST ADDITION TO COPTIC STUDIES AND REVIVAL...
ON COPTIC NATIONALISM ANNOUNCES THE WINNER AND THE RUNNER-UP TO ST. SAMUEL AWARDS! On the first day of 2021, I would like to say to my followers and readers: Happy 2022! The previous year was not a...
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ON COPTIC NATIONALISM WISHES ITS FOLLOWERS AND READERS A VERY HAPPY AND...
Coptic Nativity icon Today is the first day of the Coptic Christmas, and On Coptic Nationalism wishes its followers and readers a very happy and blessed Christmas. It’s amazing how this little child...
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FOR THE ZEAL OF GOD’S HOUSE DOES NOT CONSUME THE COPTS ANYMORE
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El Sisi speaks during a Christmas Eve mass as Coptic Pope Tawadros II looks on at the new Nativity of Christ Cathedral in Egypt’s new administrative capital near Cairo...
View ArticleA COPT SPYING IN THE UNITED STATES FOR EGYPT’S AL-SISI REGIME
On 6 January 2022, a Copt by the name of Pierre Girgis was arrested in the United States on allegations of unlawfully working at the behest of the Egyptian government to track political opponents of...
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COLLAPSE OF PART OF THE WALLS OF THE WHITE MONASTERY IN SOHAG, UPPER EGYPT
A COMBINATION OF INCOMPETENCE, CORRUPTION, NEGLECT, AND ANTI-COPTISM ON THE PART OF THE EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH CATASTROPHES The White Monastery (Monastery of St. Shenoute the...
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THE EGYPTIAN MINISTER FOR ANTIQUITIES AND TOURISM, DR. KHALED EL-ANANI, MUST...
THE MINISTRY OF ANTIQUITIES AND TOURISM WAS MADE AWARE OF THE PENDING DISASTER AS EARLY AS 31 DECEMBER 2019. IT DID NOTHING TO REPAIR THE COLLAPSING WALL Yesterday, I published the bad news of the...
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WHO RUNS COPTIC ANTIQUITIES IN EGYPT? WHO SHOULD RUN COPTIC ANTIQUITIES AND HOW?
Icon of St. Anthony and St. Paul in the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo (originally in the Monastery of St. Macarius in Old Cairo, dated 1777 AD) THE COPTS MUST BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING THEIR...
View ArticleIDEO CLIPS SHOWING THE MOMENTS OF THE COLLAPSE OF THE NORTHERN WALLS IN THE...
The Coptologist Ibrahim Saweres has published in his Facebook a video clip of the moments the northern walls of the While Monastery collapsed on the 6th of January 2022. Readers can watch it here....
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COPTIC LANGUAGE IS NOT SIMPLY THE LANGUAGE OF THE COPTIC CHURCH AND ITS...
There is urgent importance that our ecclesiastical leaders alter their understanding and message of the importance of learning Coptic I have written before about the mistake and danger of considering...
View ArticleIT IS NOT RIGHT THAT THE EGYPTIAN FLAG SHOULD ACCOMPANY POPE TAWADROS II AS...
On the 6th January 2022, the YouTube channel, Coptic Orthodox Church, published an 8-minute massage by Pope Tawadros II, titled Papal Message, Christmas 2022, English, addressed to all the Coptic...
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WHAT FLAG SHOULD HAVE STOOD AT THE SIDE OF POPE TAWADROS II WHEN ADDRESSING...
I have written a previous post, It Is Not Right That the Egyptian Flag Should Accompany Pope Tawadros II As He Addressed His Coptic Orthodox Christian Faithful Outside Egypt on The Occasion of...
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MEDICAL CONDITIONS, MIRACLES AND HEALINGS IN COPTIC LITERATURE (1): INTRODUCTION
The Healing of the Blind Man by Stéphane René In the following short articles, I will deal with a few medical conditions that are mentioned in Coptic literature, the miracles associated with them, and...
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MEDICAL CONDITIONS, MIRACLES AND HEALINGS IN COPTIC LITERATURE (2): A CASE OF...
Figure 1: A Roman relief showing a woman in normal labour. Figure 2: A second century AD bas-relief on the tomb of Roman midwife Scribonia Attica depicts her at work. (Photo by Getty Images). The...
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A NEW COPTIC TEACHING BOOK: ⲞⲨⲀⲒ, ⲤⲚⲀⲨ, ϢⲞⲘⲦ: ⲞⲨϪⲰⲘ ⲚⲤⲀϪⲒ ⲚⲘⲈⲦⲢⲘⲚⲬⲎⲘⲒ: One,...
A new book on Coptic language was published towards the end of last year by the Polis Institute Press (part of The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities, in Israel), authored by the linguist...
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A USFUL TOOL FOR RESEARCH IN THE COPTIC BIBLE APP: THE SEARCH BUTTON
I have spoken in a previous article about the excellent creation by the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society of The Coptic Bible App. One of the tools in this app which is very much welcome...
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DID THE COPTS USE THE GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS (OR ACTA PILATI) IN THEIR LITURGY?
THE COPTIC ACTA PILATI OR THE GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS I was intrigued into studying the ancient Acta Pilati, which was later called Gospel of Nicodemus in the Middle Ages, by reading Hakluytus Posthumus...
View ArticleTHE HISTORY OF THE COPTIC PATRIARCHS IS IN URGENT NEED OF TRANSLATION INTO...
The History of the Coptic Patriarchs (HCP) is a monumental, historical work of the Coptic Church that covers the lives of its patriarchs from St. Mark the Evangelist, its 1st patriarch in the first...
View ArticleSCHOOL OF COPTIC STUDIES OUTSIDE EGYPT
In Egypt there is the Institute of Coptic Studies in Cairo, which is attached to the Coptic Patriarchate at the Abbasiyya where the Cathedral of St. Mark is based. It provides good courses in Coptic...
View ArticleWE MUST LOOK AT OURSELVES AS A NATION, A DISTINCT NATION, AND PROMOTE OUR...
The Copts are a nation with sufficient and strong criteria for nationhood. When I talk about nationhood here, I do not mean political nationhood that requires national determination and sovereignty....
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