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Our Father’s Blessing for the Fatherless
Susanna stood with her head held high, telling her story to His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, hundreds of volunteer Reps, and Coptic Orphans staff at St. Mark’s Cathedral on March 31. When she lost her father, extended family members took advantage of the family’s...
H.H. Pope Tawadros II, on Coptic Orphans
On March 31, 2013, hundreds of Coptic Orphans volunteers, along with key staff, met with His Holiness Pope Tawadros II at St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo. Here is His Holiness' evaluation of Coptic Orphans based on personal involvement with the...
The God who Opens Doors
Under the current Islamic government God extended His mighty hand and Coptic Orphans is now a registered international organization in Egypt. Acting on God’s calling to “Bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.” we started serving the fatherless and...
Blessed, We Pray
His Holiness Pope Tawadros leads Coptic Orphans staff and volunteers in prayer at St. Mark's Cathedral after blessing our work exactly a week before yesterday's turmoil there. It brings new meaning to the words that His Grace Bishop Angaelos wrote yesterday afternoon:...
John Stott on (Coptic) Christians who Influence
John Stott was an Anglican writer and student of the Scriptures. Christianity Today reprinted a sermon he gave on "Four Ways Christians can influence the world." Then, someone asked on Twitter, and @Copticorphans retweeted: "How does this apply to Copts in Egypt?" How...
Children Pay the Price for Village Terror
A whole village of children still sit at home in Sheikh Shebeka, even after several months. It all started in a nearby village called Nazlet Badraman where the children attend elementary school. A notorious gangster called Ali Hussein turned his sights on a Christian...
Widows and Egypt’s Changing Marketplace
Inflation and insecurity have driven Egypt's markets to become more local, and more focused on the basics. The result has been hard-hitting for Egypt's widowed households, who already struggle for life's necessities. But the new, more informal local economies has also...
The Turning Point
Every day seemed exactly the same since her father passed away. They lived hand-to-mouth when her father was alive, but now Nadine lived in an empty shell of life: living on handouts, but with never enough to fill the stomach. Like her mother, Nadine never learned how...
What Do the Poor Think About Poverty?
In the vast majority of cases, [upper-class, North American churches] describe poverty differently than the poor in low-income countries do. While poor people mention having a lack of material things, they tend to describe their condition in a far more psychological...
Role of NGO’s: Support the Church’s Mission
Relationships are where transformation happens. Transformational Development focuses on the development of personhood in community and through community, understanding that the Holy Spirit works in both persons and communities through relationships. That's why Coptic...
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