Tag: Coptic Church

‘We are limited, but by God we are unlimited.’

“The Church has always done charity work and must continue to do it,” said one of our hosts at the largest Orthodox compound in Cairo. “This bishopric, however, focuses its efforts specifically on the work...

/ September 10, 2015

‘The seed of the Church’

Lifeless there, orange jumpsuited, sill warm with the boldness of dying well. Young men who went from desert to westward desert, from the very land where Christ himself was once a boy and a refugee....

/ February 16, 2015

Egypt’s Christians: Fellow pilgrims

This is the third post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next for the Muslim...

/ August 21, 2013