Abu Dhabi: The St Anthony's
Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abu Dhabi held a ceremony on Sunday to celebrate Christmas in the attendance of the Egyptian community living in the country, a number of officials, and a large crowd of attendees and invitees.Christmas is celebrated on January 7 by the
Coptic Christians in Egypt and the Orthodox Christians in Central and Eastern Europe.WAM Image Credit:
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Coptic Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on Jan.
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi - who declares himself a defender of Christians against extremists - is due to open Cathedral of Nativity on Sunday outside the capital, the day before
Coptic Christmas on 7 January.
Cairo [Egypt], Nov 04 ( ANI ): Egypt's Interior Ministry on Sunday confirmed that as many as 19 terrorists, linked to the recent attack on a bus carrying a group of
Coptic Christians in Cairo, were killed by the country's security forces.
This came while
Coptic monks held a sit-in in the forecourt of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Jesus is believed to be buried.
For its part, the Christian Islamic Organization condemned the attack by the occupation authorities against
Coptic priests in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
CAIRO, Wednesday, October 24, 2018 (WAFA) -- Egypt condemned on Wednesday Israeli police assault against
Coptic clergymen outside the Holy Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem's Old City calling on Israel to respect the holy places in the city.
Israeli security forces assaulted on Wednesday morning a number of Egyptian
Coptic Orthodox monks in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of East Jerusalem, and detained one of the priests, according to the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the April 2017 bombing of two
Coptic Christian churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria.
by Times News ServiceThe pages of Islam's holiest book are the only ones of their kind to be copied on a
Coptic Bible.
Summary: Top Lebanese officials were quick to condemn the Palm Sunday bomb attack on two
Coptic churches in Egypt.
(TAP)- At least 36 people were killed and more than 100 injured in bomb attacks on two
Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, in the latest assault on a religious minority increasingly targeted by Islamist militants.
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