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Christians in Egypt embark on construction of churches as persecution ebbs

June 26, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Coptic church. / Credit: Oleg Shishkov/Shutterstock

ACI Africa, Jun 26, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA).
Church projects that had been halted in Egypt when the northern African nation was dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood are being resumed as Christian… […]

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Attack on Coptic monastery in South Africa takes lives of three monks

March 13, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The Coptic Orthodox Church said Pope Tawadros II is aware of the attack that happened March 12, 2024, in the Coptic monastery of St. Mark and St. Bishop Samuel the Confessor in Johannesburg, South Africa. / Credit: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Imag… […]

The Dispatch

Vatican hosts veneration of relics of 21 Coptic martyrs of Libya on first feast day

February 15, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Icon of the 21 Martyrs of Libya. / Credit: Image courtesy of Tony Rezk, via tonyrezk.blogspot.com

Rome Newsroom, Feb 15, 2024 / 09:03 am (CNA).
The relics of 21 Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS in Libya will be venerated in St. Peter’s Basilica o… […]

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Who are the Coptic Christians? Tragic church fire a blow to a persecuted group

August 15, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Tawadros II, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, presides over a funeral liturgy for victims of the Dec. 11, 2016 bomb attack on his cathedral. / Aid to the Church in Need.

St. Louis, Mo., Aug 15, 2022 / 14:38 pm (CNA).
A massive fire at a… […]

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Report declares treatment of Christian minority women and girls a ‘human rights catastrophe’

November 24, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

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London, England, Nov 24, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
A report issued on Wednesday declared the treatment of Christian minority women and gi… […]

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Christians’ situation in Egypt improves, though many still consider them ‘second-class citizens’

July 2, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

An anti-Christian slogan graffitied on a Coptic church in Egypt. / Aid to the Church in Need.

Asyut, Egypt, Jul 2, 2021 / 14:01 pm (CNA).
While the situation of Christians has improved in Egypt under its current president, many continue to regar… […]

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Pope Francis: Blood of martyrs slain by ISIS ‘a seed that will bear rich fruit’

May 20, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Icon of the 21 Martyrs of Libya. Image courtesy of Tony Rezk, via tonyrezk.blogspot.com

CNA Staff, May 20, 2021 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis has said that the blood of 21 martyrs killed by ISIS on a Libyan beach in 2015 is “a seed that will be… […]

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Coptic Orthodox Christian executed by ISIS affiliates in Egypt

April 21, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

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Rome Newsroom, Apr 21, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).
A Coptic Orthodox Christian was killed by ISIS affiliates in Egypt earlier this week, five months after being kidnapped.In a video, 62-ye… […]

The Dispatch

Ecumenism of Blood skillfully addresses questions about martyrs-saints, Western-Eastern relations

November 8, 2018 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 3

Last year at the Eastern Churches Seminar at Notre Dame College in Ohio, I gave a lecture entitled “If My Saints Are True, Are Yours False?” I looked at some of the complicated issues that […]

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The problem is not “Islamophobia” but ignorance of Islam

February 20, 2018 William Kilpatrick 42

An Open Letter to Bishop Joseph Bambera, Chairman of the USCCB’s Committee for Interreligious Affairs […]

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