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Cairo Journal: A Taste of Spring That Reeks of Tradition
Cairo :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Cairo Journal A Taste of Spring That Reeks of Tradition Bryan Denton for The New York Times Fishmongers at the Shahin shop in Cairo wrapped the Egytian holiday delicacy known as feseekh a heavily salted, stinky, aged mullet for customers. Every year,
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Egypt's Christians celebrate Coptic Easter
Cairo :: Egypt | 1 month ago
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Thousands of Egyptian Christians are marking Coptic Easter at the same church that was the site of sectarian clashes weeks earlier. Worshippers, as well as Muslim figures opposed to President Mohammed Morsi, gathered Saturday at St. Mark's Cathedral
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Church plans irk rugby club
Cairo :: Egypt | 1 month ago
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Father Sourial Sourial, of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church in Christchurch, lights candles for a prayer service yesterday. Plans to build an Egyptian Orthodox Christian church complete with a 12-metre tower and gold domes on the edge of Harewood'
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TURNING BLIND EYE:Egyptian Cops Appear to Protect Church Attackers
Cairo :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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The video shot April 7 and first obtained by MidEast Christian News , shows a men shooting guns, wielding machetes and hurling stones and possibly Molotov cocktails as mourners carry caskets out of St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Abbassia
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Coptic Orthodox leader to meet Pope Francis in May
Vatican City :: Vatican City | 1 month ago
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The Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria Tawadros II will meet Pope Francis next month in the Vatican -- the first visit by a Coptic Orthodox leader in 40 years and the latest signs of growing ties between the new pope and the Orthodox world. Tawadros will
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Egyptian leader questions revolution investigation
Cairo :: Egypt | 2 months ago
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Suggestions that Egyptian military figures were tied to violence during the 2011 revolution are misleading, the Egyptian prosecutor general said. Egyptian Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah said there was no concrete evidence that security forces
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Missing Christian Girls Leave Trail of Tears
Alexandria :: Egypt | 2 months ago
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IPS Articles In a recent case, a 13-year-old Coptic Christian girl from a village near Alexandria was allegedly kidnapped and held for over a week as her abductors tried to force her to renounce her religion. According to her testimony, she was
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Pressure Egypt govt to protect Copts: MP
Cairo :: Egypt | 2 months ago
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UN security council to help stop escalating violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt, federal Liberal MP Craig Kelly says. About 1000 members of the Australian-Egyptian Coptic Christian community rallied in Sydney on Sunday to call for an end to
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Egypt: Interior Minstry Arrests Nine Perpetrators In Cathedral Violence
Cairo :: Egypt | 2 months ago
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Egypt's Interior Ministry on Friday said it arrested nine people who were involved in clashes the erupted at the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo last Sunday. The ministry managed to locate and arrest nine perpetrators and referred them to
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Egypt's Copts lash out at government's anti-Christian rhetoric
Cairo :: Egypt | 2 months ago
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ments Egypt's Copts lash out at government's anti-Christian rhetoric Egypt's Coptic Church unleashed one of its strongest criticisms ever of the government after back-to-back deadly attacks on Copts that the pope insists were incited by harsh anti-
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