Orthodox-Catholic Statement on ‘Arab Spring’
A round up of news: Statement of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation October 29, 2011 Washington, DC The Plight of Churches in the Middle East The “Arab Spring” is unleashing...
View ArticleRussian Orthodox Bishop: Syrian Christians Facing ‘Extermination’
Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Oct. 16 after the...
View ArticleNew Book Looks at the Coptic Exodus from Egypt
In The Wall Street Journal, Michael J. Totten reviews Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity (Hoover Institution, 236 pages, $19.95) by Samuel Tadros. Totten says the book offers...
View ArticleVideo: Coptic Orthodox Bishop Pleads for Peace and Reconciliation in Egypt
Sky News talks with Bishop Angaelos, the General Bishop of Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, about the ongoing bloodshed in Egypt. (HT: Byzantine, TX) Bishop Angaelos also issued this...
View ArticleLinks: Egypt in Flames
Egypt: Coptic church cancels Sunday mass for 1st time in 1,600 years “We did not hold prayers in the monastery on Sunday for the first time in 1,600 years,” Priest Selwanes Lotfy of the Virgin Mary and...
View ArticleRadio Free Acton: Egypt in Transition
As Egypt moves through the process of establishing a new, stable government after not just one but two revolutions, the security of the Coptic Orthodox Christian community in Egyptian society has at...
View ArticleCoptic Orthodox Bishop on the Islamic State Mass Murder of Christians in Libya
When asked by the BBC interviewer what he would say to the terrorists if they were sitting in the studio at that moment, the bishop replied: I would say that any religion starts from a premise of a...
View ArticleCoptic Bishop on the Islamist Murder of 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya
Bishop Angaelos The nation of Ethiopia has declared a state of mourning following confirmation that Islamic State terrorists have murdered more Christians in Libya. Numerous statements have been...
View ArticleAfter the Cairo bombing, the West must stand with the Coptic Church
It has been just over a week since a suicide bomber entered the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral complex in Cairo, killing himself and making martyrs of 27 Egyptian...
View ArticleHow to give thanks in 2020
Thanksgiving in 2020 seems to be an oxymoron. What good can we celebrate in the year that witnessed an ongoing global health pandemic, an artificial economic crisis, and the largest federal budget...
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