The three seasons are commemorated by special prayers in the Coptic Liturgy. This calendar is still in use all over Egypt by farmers to keep track of the various agricultural seasons. [6] The Coptic ...

While many are packing away Christmas decorations and saying goodbye to holiday treats, a small Egyptian community in Fort ...

Unlike the globally recognised 25 December, Ethiopians celebrate Christmas, or Genna/Ganna as it is locally called, on 7 ...

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 7: The Egyptian Coptic Church in Kuwait celebrated Christmas in a spirit of joy and reverence at the St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church. The cathedral was filled with the sounds of ...

More than 200 million Christians are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January.

According to legend, it was St. Mark who introduced Christianity to Egypt, and it was here that Africa's first Christian church – the Coptic Church of Egypt – thrived. To learn more about ...

January 7 marks an alternate Christmas tradition, namely the Orthodox Christmas, and a very strong one at that ...

In a poignant address during the Coptic Orthodox Christmas Mass, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi shared a message of hope and ...

Mark the evangelist. This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their ...

Minister of Social Solidarity Maya Morsy and Minister of Local Development Manal Awad attended the Christmas celebration on ...