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3 days ago · CNA Newsroom, Mar 13, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA). The Coptic Orthodox Church announced that three monks were attacked and murdered Tuesday in the Coptic monastery of St. Mark and St. Bishop Samuel the Confessor in Cullinan, South Africa, 18 miles east of the country’s capital, Pretoria.
22 hours ago · Coptic Orthodox Cross with traditional Coptic script reading: 'Jesus Christ, the Son of God' The Coptic year is the extension of the ancient Egyptian civil year, retaining its subdivision into the three seasons, four months each. The three seasons are commemorated by special prayers in the Coptic liturgy.
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3 days ago · Although it is not clear if St. Thecla was a historical person, stories of this figure come to us from the Acts of Thecla—a section of the Acts of Paul —dated to the end of the second century C.E. According to the Acts of Thecla, Thecla is a first-century noblewoman of Iconium (in modern Turkey). When she hears Paul preach in her hometown ...
2 days ago · The Coptic Orthodox Church, (Coptic: Ϯⲉⲕ̀ⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲟⲣⲑⲟⲇⲟⲝⲟⲥ, romanized: Ti-eklisia en-remenkimi en-orthodhoxos, lit. 'the Egyptian Orthodox Church'), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt.
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- St. Mark the Evangelist (Traditional)
5 days ago · A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. – Matthew 15:21. Who was Simon the Cyrene? Legend has it that Simon the Cyrene was black, and that the Romans may have singled him out to carry Jesus’ cross. Others believe he was Jewish.
2 days ago · In South Africa, a Catholic priest and three Coptic Orthodox monks have been brutally killed in two separate incidents, sparking concerns over escalating violence within places of worship.. Father ...
4 days ago · The Coptic Orthodox leaders’ statement did not make any explicit reference to Fiducia Supplicans but their reassertion in the text of their church’s teaching on homosexuality, firmly based on Sacred Scripture, coupled with Father Ibrahim’s video message, made the cause of their suspension of dialogue incontrovertible.
