Texts like the "Sortes Astrampsychi" promised insights on clients' love lives, career prospects, financial woes and families ...

The series expands the pool of source material to include not only Greek and Latin writings, but also Syriac and Coptic texts. Additionally, the series rejects a theologically normative view by ...

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The word “Gnostic” comes from the Greek word gnōsis, meaning knowledge. In a nutshell, Gnosticism refers to the knowledge of ...

The manuscript itself contains texts including the first complete epistle of Peter, the Book of Jonah, and an Easter homily. Reuters The codex was written in Coptic on papyrus around 250-350 AD ...

Jumping forward to ninth-century Egypt, we see pages from illuminated Coptic manuscripts: One contains a large cross ... Or as the opening wall text bluntly demands, “Your money or your eternal life?” ...

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 ...

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Children are believed to be among the dead. An electrical fire broke out as 5,000 worshippers gathered for Mass at the Coptic Abu Sifin church in Giza, security sources told Reuters. The fire ...

Three Egyptian Coptic monks have been "brutally killed" inside a monastery in South Africa, the Church has said. Father Takla Moussa, Father Minah ava Marcus and Father Youstos ava Marcus were ...

The first visit of the relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes to Ireland drew 1,000 people to a rosary procession at St Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry. Hundreds more queued to enter St Mary’s Church, Belfast ...