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EASTER GREETING IN COPTIC
Figure 1: Coptic icon from the 18th century by Yuhanna al-Armani [1] in the Aby Sarga Church in Old Cairo: “Christ’s Resurrection: He breaks the gates of Hades (Amente) and saves Adam, Eve and the...
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THE COPTS IN THE HOLY LAND: PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM BY THE COPTS IN THE...
What did the Copts think of visiting Jerusalem, the City of God, in the Middle Period[1] of their history? The search for that will not only tell us what Coptic thinking of the Pilgrimage to Jerusalem...
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FOUR MORE COFFINS: BASHMURIC SONG
Four more coffins: Bashmuric song Four more coffins ushered into the church. Cries of grief: Ya Rab! Ya Rab! Oh, Lord! Oh Lord! Irhamna ya Allah, Have Mercy on us, oh God! Priest sends the dead to...
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WE HAVE CHANGED STRATEGY: HITHERTO OUR FIRST OPTION HAS BEEN WORKING WITH...
STATEMENT BY THE COPTIC NATIONALISTS (8 April 2013): CHANGE OF STRATEGY Our position has changed: from now on, Coptic Nationalists will work for partition and creation of a Coptic homeland for our...
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EXPLANATORY NOTE TO THE STATEMENT BY THE COPTIC NATIONALISTS ON CHANGE OF...
The above statement (dated 9 April 2013) has been made by the Coptic Nationalists and not by the Coptic Church or any other group within the Coptic community. It is a statement of change of heart and...
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THE COPTIC CHURCH AND POLITICS
St. Mark and his Lion, Coptic icon by Fadi Mikhail, UK. Those who ask the Church to stay away from politics are either deluded and misguided or devious predators. The Church of Egypt cannot be but...
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THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE COPTS LOOKED FOR THE U.S.’ EGYPT REPORT ON HUMAN...
Senator Kerry presents the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2012, on 19 April 2013. Senator John F. Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State presented on 19 April, 2013 the Country Reports on Human...
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THE COPTIC TEST FOR THE IDIOT LEFT
Figure 1: Idiot Savant, by Stewart Kenneth Moore (Booda), a contemporary artist from Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic. __________ The unsympathetic Western Leftist does not recognise the Coptic plight...
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COPTIC UNICORN: ITS SYMBOLISM
Figure 1: The cheerful, hopping Coptic unicorn, from a Sahidic Coptic manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. The very prominent Coptologist, Alin Siciu, has recently shared with us a...
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CRITIQUE OF ALISTAIR BURT’S STATEMENT ON THE RECENT ATTACK ON THE COPTIC...
Figure 1: Alistair Burt MP. Alistair Burt MP is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. The minister is The minister is based in the Foreign and Commonwealth...
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COPTIC POPE TAWADROS II CRITICISES THE ANTI-COPTIC POLICES OF THE MUSLIM...
In an interview with Reuters on 25 April 2013, and published today, Pope Tawadros II, spoke out against the appalling current situation in Egypt and the Islamists’ policies against the Copts. The...
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WHY WE SHOULD CONTINUE OUR HISTORICAL RELIGIOUS TRADITION OF VISITING THE...
Figure 1: Christ at the Sea of Galilee by the Italian artist Jacopo Robusti (Tintoretto), c. 1575-1580. __________ The Coptic Church must insist that the pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a religious...
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THE 2013 USCIRF (U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM) REPORT...
Figure 1: Egypt is designated Country of Particular Concern (CPC) by the U.S. for its severe violation of the religious freedom of the Copts and other religious minorities. __________ Egypt again is...
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THE COPTIC NATIONALISTS’ 7-POINT PRINCIPLED POSITION ON THE ARAB-ISRAELI...
__________ It is mandatory that politically mature, responsible Copts think carefully and determine where they stand on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Their objective must be a principled position that is...
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WHY DO WE NEED TO HAVE A CLEAR POSITION ON THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT?
Some have questioned the wisdom of having a clear position on the Arab-Israeli conflict. We have articulated a coherent, non-ambiguous position on the Arab-Israeli conflict to combat the extreme...
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THE OFFICIAL LIFE OF YOANNIS (JOHN) XIX, COPTIC POPE NUMBER 113, BY HEGUMENOS...
Coptic Patriarch 113, Pope Yoannis (John) XIX (1928 – 1942)- mosaic at the Cathedral of Saint Mark in Azbakiyya, Cairo, where he resided (Photo, Michael Ghali Professor Johannes den Heijer says in the...
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THE COPTIC IN PATROLOGIA ORIENTALIS
The Patrologia Orientalis (PO) is published by Brepols, a Belgian-based publishing and printing house, one of the largest in the world that has been in the business since 1795. One of its enduring...
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HOW TO SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS IN COPTIC?
In Coptic, the Christmas greeting is as follows: - (Pikhristos avmacf) (Christ has been born!) - (Khen Omethmi Avmacf) (In truth he has been born!) The Coptic Christmas greeting is on...
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COPTIC CHRISTMAS GREETING
Now, the Coptic Christmas or Nativity greeting is interesting! One can immediately see that it is not about merriment and jollity, as is embodied in the “Merry Christmas!” translated into Arabic as...
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DAME COPHTE, A RARE PHOTOGRAPH BY THE PROMINENT PHOTOGRAPHER JEAN PASCAL SÉBAH
Jean (or Johannes) Pascal Sebah (1874 – 1947) was a famous photographer in Egypt in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He was son of Pascal Sebah (1823 – 1886),...
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