The feast of the Epiphany, falling on 19 January, is one of the most sacred days in the Coptic Christian calendar In the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, 19 January is a hallowed day, the feast of ...

they had to celebrate the feast of the cross,” said Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. In Rome, Pope Benedict XVI condemned the “deplorable attack which the ...

It gives dates in both the Coptic and Western Calendars for fixed festivals. The Apostles' Feast (Abib 5, c. July 12) The Nayrouz Feast (1st of Tute, c. September 11) The Two Feasts of the Cross ...

The tombstone is decorated with a cross and Coptic inscriptions that were carved ... Jews from Egypt visited Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost, a harvest festival that marked the birth of ...

Tariff Tales: Borrowing from the Biden Playbook? Tariffs: The First Time as Farce, the Second as Tragedy We Told the Truth About Biden’s Decline The Strategic Folly of a Global War on Trade The ...

Earlier this month, near the Upper Egypt city of Assiut, tens of thousands of worshippers from the country’s Coptic Christian minority gathered to commemorate the Virgin Mary’s life and ...

The biblical Book of Acts tells how Jews from Egypt came to Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost ... vast majority of Copts are members of the Coptic Orthodox Church, an independent church ...

Every August, tens of thousands of Egypt’s Coptic Christians and Egyptian Muslims take buses and trains to the Virgin Mary Monastery in Assiut. The monastery is believed to have been visited by ...

The relics of 21 Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS in Libya will be venerated in St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday evening at an ecumenical prayer service marking their first official feast day in ...

The Vatican will likely designate Feb. 15 as their feast day, the same day the Coptic Orthodox Church honors them, officials said. Tawadros was at the Vatican to commemorate the 50th anniversary ...