News & Reports

By Barnabas Aid – The warring parties in Sudan have agreed to a seven-day ceasefire that began on the evening of 22 May – although reports indicated that fighting continued in some areas. [...]

Al-Monitor – Experts say the Jordanian Civil Code must differentiate between Christians and Muslims, so that the recent draft law on equal inheritance between female and male Christians can be [...]

Sudanese Christians were wounded by gunfire at a Coptic church in Omdurman, west of Khartoum, on Sunday, while the two parties to the conflict in Sudan exchanged accusations of responsibility for [...]

By Aleteia – Tawadros II celebrating in Rome the 50th anniversary of the meeting between his predecessor and Pope Paul VI. This May 14, the leader of more than 10 million faithful in Egypt [...]

By Aleteia – The 21 people put in orange jump suites, lined up on beach and killed by ISIS, are now to be inscribed not only in the Coptic book of saints, but the Roman Martyrology. [...]

By Australian Associated Press – Two popes have shared the limelight in the Vatican’s St Peter’s Square – Pope Francis and His Holiness Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic [...]

By Aleteia – Pope Francis did not deliver his traditional Wednesday morning catechesis but let Pope Tawadros II, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, speak to the faithful gathered in [...]

By Al-Monitor – Iran on Monday executed two men convicted of blasphemy, the country’s judiciary announced, carrying out a rare death sentence for such a crime. The judiciary’s [...]

Report by RSF Reporters Without Borders – journalism threatened by fake content industry. The 21st edition of the World Press Freedom Index, compiled annually by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), [...]

By Marina Makary  – Egyptian Streets – The Coptic Orthodox Church was established after the evangelism of Saint Mark in Egypt’s Alexandria in 44 AD. One of the oldest Churches in [...]