Today is Holy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter, when Christians around the world celebrate the Last Supper, the event when Jesus and his disciples are believed to have dined together for the last time before his crucifixion.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to visit Sudan on Tuesday to hold talks with the head of the Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, Sudan's SUNA news agency reported.
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Veteran Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme mourned the death of Egyptian actress Ragaa El-Giddawy who died on Sunday following a 43-day battle with the coronavirus.
On his Instagram account Van Damme wrote "I'm in shock! It's very sad to read that (...)
French police fired tear gas and charged hooded protesters on Thursday at a demonstration in Paris against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plan.
The tensions broke out close to the place de la Republique square in the east of Paris, where (...)
Any discussion on the establishment of an exclusive zone between Turkey and Libya is “completely unacceptable” and “beyond all reason,” Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday, in the wake of an agreement signed between the two (...)
China warned the United States on Thursday that it would take "firm counter measures" in response to US legislation backing anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, and said attempts to interfere in the Chinese-ruled city were doomed to (...)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a press conference at the State Department in Washington on Tuesday during which he answered questions on different topics including Turkey, Iran, China, the Trump impeachment and other (...)
Last Monday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US was abandoning its four-decade-long position that Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land are illegal and inconsistent with international law.
"After carefully (...)
Zimbabwe police have given main government workers' union green light to protest on Wednesday to press for higher pay as inflation rendered their wages worthless.
The decision adds to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's woes as state doctors entered (...)
Former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif currently in hospital, fighting for his life
Sharif is currently in the Services Hospital in the eastern city of Lahore and is in critical condition
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been transferred (...)
General Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Hamad Mohammed Thani Al Rumaithi announced on Wednesday the return of UAE troops after successfully liberating Aden governorate, according to a statement published by the state news agency WAM.
Both the (...)
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had died in a raid by US Special Forces in northwest Syria, in a major blow to the jihadist group.
“Last night, the United States (...)
The Monastic Affairs Committee of the Holy Synod, the highest authority of the Coptic Orthodox Church, issued 12 new decrees on Thursday regulating monasteries following the recent murder of Bishop Epiphanius, the head of the Saint Macarius the (...)
On 7 January, Coptic Orthodox Christians – who comprise 90 percent of Egypt's Christians – will break their 43-day fast and celebrate Christmas.
The festival comes almost two weeks after most Western denominations, including Catholics and (...)
A number of countries around the world have condemned the killing of 16 Egyptian security forces in a shootout with terrorists that took place on Friday in Egypt's Western Desert.
France's embassy in Cairo expressed its “full solidarity with the (...)
Egyptian short film "AH!" won the Best Short Film Award at the 5th Delhi International Film Festival, India, an event that took place between 3 and 9 December.
The film was the only Egyptian entry in the festival where numerous films compete, (...)
The Egyptian government has approved the decision of President Abdel-FattahEl-Sisi to allocate 30 feddansto the Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo's upscale Fifth Settlement"El Tagamoa El Khames"district,EgyptianPrime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab announced (...)
Renowned Egyptian singer Abdel-Halim Hafez was born on 21 June 1929, and died on 30 March 1977.
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The child Abdel-Halim with his elder brother Ismail.
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Playing cards with the musician Baligh Hamdi and the Egyptian actor Omar Sharif in (...)
On Tuesday 7 January, Coptic Orthodox Christians – who comprise 90 percent of Egypt's Christians – will break their 43-day fast and celebrate Christmas. The festival comes almost two weeks after most Western denominations, including Catholics and (...)
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Bishoy of Damietta and Kafr El-Sheikh has banned Christian women in his diocese from wearing trousers, blouses and make-up in church to receive communion.
Signs have been put up at churches in the diocese stating: "In response (...)
Renowned Egyptian singer Abdel-Halim Hafez was born on 21 June 1929, and died on 30 March 1977.
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The child Abdel-Halim with his elder brother Ismail.
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Playing cards with the musician Baligh Hamdi and the Egyptian actor Omar Sharif in (...)
Attendees of the celebration held on Sunday by the Abi Serja Church visited the cave where the Holy Family found shelter in Egypt and the well from which it drew its drinking water
To commemorate the Holy Family's flight into Egypt, the Abi Serja (...)
The Coptic Orthodox Church has decided to postpone an annual festival in honour of the Virgin Mary, due to start 28 May, because of the upcoming presidential election.
Bishop Pavnotios, bishop of the diocese of Samalut and Taha El-Aameda in Minya (...)
Today is Holy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter, when Christians around the world celebrate the Last Supper, the event when Jesus and his disciples are believed to have dined together for the last time before his crucifixion.
Holy Thursday is (...)
A retired army general says he has filed a court case pushing for Egypt's historic Saint Catherine's Monastery to be demolished and its Greek monks deported on the grounds that they pose a threat to national security.
In May 2012, Ahmed Ragai Attiya (...)