Category: Article

Egypt finds arms caches near Gaza border

5 February, 2007 (02:02) | Egypt, Article, News

Egyptian police have discovered two arms caches in northern Sinai near the border with the Gaza Strip, including hand and rocket-propelled grenades.
Police discovered the weaponry in two boxes in Al-Ahrash near the border, the official said on condition of anonymity.
Police said that they found no one with the weapons and had no immediate leads on […]

The Dialects of the Coptic Language:

27 January, 2007 (16:18) | Did you know?, Article

The Coptic language was divided into different dialects according to the regions of Egypt and the length of the […]

Leather Book Binding

19 January, 2007 (02:52) | Did you know?, Article, News

Bookbinding in leather was supposed to have been practiced by the Copts in Egypt. Surviving examples of Coptic bindings in red and brown leather from the 8th and 9th centuries,

How God Loves us

7 January, 2007 (03:11) | Article, Bible

After a few of the usual Sunday evening hymns, the church’s pastor slowly stood up, walked over to the pulpit, and before he gave his sermon for the evening, briefly introduced a guestb minister who was in the service that evening. In the introduction, the pastor told the congregation that the guest minister was one […]

The Origin of the Coptic Language

29 December, 2006 (16:23) | Did you know?, Coptic, Article, News

Semitic or Hemitic: The ancient Egyptian language, which was the origin of the Coptic language, was one of the groups of languages scholars have classified as Hemito- Semitic.1 This classification includes as well ancient Egyptian, Semitic, Berber, and Cushitic. The philologists who agree with this classification discovered […]