News from the Holy Land

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The Coptic Orthodox Church

2017-02-27T15:30:56+00:00February 27th, 2017|Categories: News from the Holy Land|

Present in the Holy Land with a small community, but with some 18 million faithful in the world - almost all in Egypt - the Coptic Orthodox Church is the portion of the Church of Alexandria in Egypt that separated from the Byzantine Church in the wake of the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

Final stage of the renovation of the Holy Sepulcher

2017-02-24T16:52:22+00:00February 24th, 2017|Categories: News from the Holy Land|

The restoration of the Holy Sepulcher of Jesus, one of the holiest sites in Christendom, is about to conclude. The scaffoldings of the edicule have already been removed. After nine months of meticulous work, the restoration of the Holy Sepulcher has reached its final stages. The scaffoldings that were mounted around the edicule, have already been [...]