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| » | Pastoral Message Concerning Atef Aziz
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Date published: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 00:23:52 +0000
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| » | Remains of beheaded Copts to return to Egypt Monday: Libya
CAIRO – 14 May 2018: Member of the Department of Criminal Investigation in Misurata, northwe ... |
| » | Remains of beheaded Copts to return to Egypt soon: Libya
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| » | Egypt sentences to death suspect in Coptic priest’s killing
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| » | Scanning an Ancient Biblical Text That Humans Fear to Open
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| » | Egypt's Sisi attends Coptic Christmas celebration amid tight security
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| » | The Papal Message of the Glorious Nativity Feast of 2018 in 18 languages
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| » | Egypt's Coptic Christians to consecrate huge new cathedral
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| » | Egypt's Copts prepare for opening of cathedral in new administrative capital
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| » | Egypt defence minister, army chief-of-staff visit Pope Tawadros II to offer Christmas felicitations
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| » | His Holiness receives Egypt's Minister of Finance
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| » | His Holiness receives Egypt's Minister of Defense
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| St. Joachim and St. Ann (Anna) |
on 11 Feb 2012 by St. John Damascene (of Damascus) (645-749)    |
| Ann was to be the mother of the Virgin Mother of God, and hence nature did not dare to anticipate the flowering of grace. Thus nature remained sterile, until grace produced its fruit. For she who was to be born had to be a first born daughter, since she would be the mother of the first-born of all creation, in [read more] |