Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2018
The monks of the monastery of Anbā Ṣamūʾīl in Minya organized a protest on the road leading to the monastery, objecting to the ban on visits and entry of cars of all kinds.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Located in Malāwī, Minya on the eastern side of the Nile, the archeological area of Dayr al-Barshā is closed for excavation works supervised by the Egyptian ministry of antiquities. After a land subsidence that occurred in the Minya area few days ago, residents of the neighboring valley of Dayr al-...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
The time limit granted to unrecognized monastic entities by the Monastic Affairs Committee of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church, headed by His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark, has expired. However, these entities have not fulfilled the conditions of...
Date of source: Thursday, November 29, 2018
In an interview hosted by Sky News TV Channel, Coptic Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, Tawāḍrūs II, said that Bishop Epiphaniyūs, who was killed close to his cell inside the Abū Maqār Monastery (St. Makarius [Makāriyyūs] Monastery), was cherished and respected by everyone, adding, that in...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Kamāl Zākhir, Founder of the Secular Coptic Current (SCC), announced that the SCC will organize its 6th conference by next October, indicating that it will present an Egyptian national vision regarding the problems associated with the erection of churches and the Coptic monasticism.
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2018
Despite confessing before the official investigation authorities of his complicity with the defrocked Monk Ishʿayāʾ al-Maqārī in the murder of Anbā Epiphaniyūs, Bishop of the St. Makāriyyūs Monastery in Wādī al-Natrūn, but the Holy Synod’s Monastic Affairs Committee has not yet decided the fate of...
Date of source: Thursday, November 22, 2018
In an effort to promote religious tourism, members of al-Wafd Party, Assiut branch, visited the Dayr al-Muḥarraq, also known as the Muharraq Monastery, in al-Qūṣiyyah Markaz (country’s subdivision).
Date of source: Monday, February 19, 2018
On Monday, Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria, awarded Nādiya ʿAbdu, Governess of Beheira [al-Biḥayrah], with a Coptic shield at the occasion of the inauguration of two churches, St. Makārīyūs al-Sakandarī and the Three Macarius Saints church, at St. Makārīūs al-Sakandarī Monastery at Mount al-...
Date of source: Monday, February 19, 2018
Today, Bishop Bakhūmīyūs, Metropolitan of Beheira [Biḥayrah] and Matrouh [Matrūḥ], head of the St. Makārīūs al-Sakandarī Monastery welcomed Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, at the monastery in Beheira. There, in the village al-Kiffaḥ, he inaugurated two...
Date of source: Monday, February 19, 2018
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, visited St. Makārīūs al-Sakandarī Monastery at Mount al-Qilālī in Beheira, where he held a Mass. This was the Pope’s first visit to the monastery after its recognition by the Holy Synod in June 2014.