A new song highlights a growing interest outside the Egyptian church in reviving an ancient language of the Christian world. The darkened New York church was packed with almost 1,000 congregants ...
The heresy-fighting bishop Irenaeus of Lyon, France, mentioned the Gospel of Judas about 180 AD, linking the writing to a Gnostic sect. Some two centuries later, Epiphanius, bishop of Cyprus, ...
Coptic Lives, a Core Curriculum course, offers students a gateway into what it would be like to live in historical Coptic society. Investigating history through archeological methods, students ...
Mona Zaki often receives strange looks when she answers her mobile phone in public. Among her closest friends and family members, the 58-year-old mother speaks colloquial Coptic. “People look at me if ...
The casual observer of Egypt’s politics could hardly be blamed for thinking that Egypt’s Copts are facing the worst crisis of their modern history. The first president of Egypt’s second republic is an ...
On the occasion of Easter, some in Egypt are examining the limited awareness about the history and traditions of Christians in the country At a small but very colourful candle store in Zamalek, Cairo, ...
In July 2008, Bishop Thomas, the Coptic Orthodox Bishop of El-Qussia Diocese in Upper Egypt, delivered a talk in Washington about the cultural history of his co-religionists, entitled “The Experience ...
Researchers have shed new light on "magical" texts created centuries ago in Egypt with the intention of bringing about changes in the lives of those who used them. For the past five years, two ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
The Academy of Finland has granted funding to twenty University of Helsinki research projects studying culture and society. The topics range from brain imaging to early Christian manuscripts. The ...
On the occasion of Easter, some in Egypt are examining the limited awareness about the history and traditions of Christians in the country At a small but very colourful candle store in Zamalek, Cairo, ...
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