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Priests fear Egyptian youth will turn away from Church

Posted on Monday, 14 February 2011 Tags: Coptic, Copts, Egypt

Two priests say they fear that young Egyptian Catholics will turn away from the Church because it did not back the protests

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‘Every needy child is your child’

Posted on Friday, 4 February 2011 Tags: Copts, Egypt, Maggie Gobran, Mother Teresa of Cairo, Stephen's Children, Zabbaleen

Ed West meets the woman known as ‘the Mother Teresa of Cairo’ for her work with the city’s ‘garbage people’

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Vatican expert: Police can’t stop north Africa protests

Posted on Monday, 31 January 2011 Tags: Copts, Egypt, Fr Justo Lacunza Balda, Hosni Mubarak, Middle East Christians, Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Tunisia

Former rector of pontifical institute says political atmosphere in Egypt feels like the end of the Ottoman Empire

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 31/01/11

Posted on Monday, 31 January 2011 Tags: Angelus, Anglicanorum coetibus, Apostolic Nuncio to Britain, app, Archbishop Antonio Mennini, Beatitudes, Benjamin Mann, Bishop Luigi Padovese, Brother Stephen Treat, Communion on the tongue, Confession, Confession: A Roman Catholic app, Copts, Courtyard of the Gentiles, Egypt, Elizabeth Hansen, exorcism, Hollywood, iPad, iPhone, John Allen, Patriarch Kirill, SS Simon and Jude Cathedral, Stephen Greydanus, The Rite

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/01/11

Posted on Monday, 17 January 2011 Tags: Angelus, Archbishop Cranmer, beatification, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Coen brothers, Copts, Damian Thompson, Fr John Hunwicke, Fr Robert Barron, Fr Stephen Wang, Fr Timothy Finigan., Neocatechumenal Way, Peter Stanford, Pontifical Academy for the Sciences, Pope John Paul II, the Catholic League, the Observer, the Rt Rev Edwin Barnes, True Grit, Vox Clara Committee, Werner Arber

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Is a new departure in Christian-Muslim relations unfolding in Egypt, this Orthodox Christmas Day?

Posted on Friday, 7 January 2011 Tags: al-Qaeda, Alexandria, Copts, Fr Rafaeil Sarwat, human shields, Islam, Pakistan, Salmaan Taseer, Samuel Huntingdon

Certainly something very striking is going on: are there here, really, reasons for hope?

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/01/10

Posted on Friday, 7 January 2011 Tags: 2011 About.com Catholicism Readers' Choice Awards, Archbishop Joao Braz de Aviz, Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Asia Bibi, Christmas, Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Copts, Discovery Channel, Epiphany, exorcism, Jeffrey Anderson, Jesuit Refugee Service, John Allen, Mark Shea, Michael Kelly, referendum, Scott P Richert, Sudan

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Time to stop the Christian exodus from the Middle East, says Vatican

Posted on Friday, 11 June 2010 Tags: Copts, Cyprus, exodus, human rights, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Philippines, Pope Benedict XVI, religious freedom, South Asia, The Holy Land, Turkey, Vatican

The plight of Christians in the Middle East is threatened by an “extremist current” of “political Islam” and is being ignored by the world, the Pope has said ahead of a new Vatican report

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