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Ethiopia became a Christian empire in 330 AD, before the conversion of Rome to Christianity.
The very first Christian coins displaying a cross were also from Ethiopia's Aksumite Empire.
Before Christianity, Temple Judaism had a presence there for over a thousand years.
Always a lovely opportunity to meet at @TheSanctuaryCDL for our @CopticDiocese fortnightly @GVFellowshipUK meeting, last night reflecting on “Who am I when no one’s watching?”
“The true Christian practices righteousness, not for display, but because he (or she) loves God”
St. Clement of Alexandria
‘When I come to God with my authentic self, He will rejoice in the beautiful parts and heal the others, because l have left myself in His hands.’
Many white American conservatives don't see anything wrong with bullying because white "supremacy" is literally legalized bullying codified into laws and societal order.
Happy Feast Day of the obtaining of the relics of Saint Mark the Apostle (seen below in the brown tomb). On this day, the Coptic Orthodox obtained the relics of Saint Mark from the Roman Catholics and returned it to its rightful place in Egypt. May His blessings be with us all!
I honestly find it funny when people show up today on the internet thinking they are the ones who will bring down the Coptic Orthodox Church and her sisters from the Orthodox Holy Oriental Churches distort its history, or silence the voice of truth.
We are talking about the Coptic Orthodox Church , a Church with a great and ancient history, one that endured persecution, attempts to break it, and campaigns of distortion over many centuries, and yet remained.
So someone is not going to come today ,a Protestant American, someone who decided to convert to a Byzantine or Greek church and go online attacking the Church through insults, lies, historical distortion, and baseless accusations that have nothing to do with reality, and think that this will somehow silence the voice of truth or damage the image of the Church.
As H.H Pope Shenouda III once said:
“O people, slowly , turn through the pages of history and understand; say to whoever is called great that the Lord of the Copts is greater.”
You need to realize that you do not know whom you are fighting. The Coptic Orthodox Church is not new, and its history will not be changed by a post, a video, or noise on the internet. I hope you gonna find peace and healing away from this lowly approach of spreading lies and rewriting the history .
Down I am sharing a
rare photo published for the first time of His Holiness Pope Shenouda delivering a speech at the Conference of African Churches, which was held at St. Mark’s Cathedral in 1976.
This Conference of African Churches was held in Egypt. Its sessions took place between Cairo and Alexandria under the patronage of Pope Shenouda. The conference issued a statement expressing its aspiration toward the Church of Alexandria as a mother Church and a leading Church for the churches of Africa.
Following the success of the conference and its recommendations, Pope Shenouda III consecrated Anba Antonious Markos as General Bishop for African Affairs, in the African continent Anba Antonios Markos labored and his fruits later extended to many African countries.
At the end I repeat the precious message of Saint Habib Girgis :
“But you, O Orthodox,
who by the grace of the Holy Spirit still remain steadfast in your faith
and preserve the soundness of your belief…
Remember the glory of your Egyptian Church.
Remember the courage and zeal of Athanasius of Alexandria,
and Cyril of Alexandria,
and Dioscorus of Alexandria.
Do not abandon a single letter of the teachings of your true faith, founded upon Holy Scripture and upon what the Church received from the Fathers,
neither adding to it nor taking away a single letter.”
Saint Habib Girgis.
The last painting
The Rest of the Holy Family after hardship
By Luc-Olivier Merson, 1880
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States
Millie Bobby Brown is defending Jake Bongiovi after fans criticized her husband for not carrying her bags or pushing their baby's stroller during various recent outings.
🎥: Not Gonna Lie
Kyle Kulinski: “Conservatives have the wrong enemies. They just want to blame Black people and immigrants and trans people. They’re just wrong. The actual people who are making your life worse are the billionaires and the fascists and the warmongers”
Anyone know if @C2Antiquity has accepted any of 2-3 debate challenges that have been offered to him so far from the OO side?
Surely if you have a blessing to attack other churches, then you have a blessing to be publicly cross-examined on those same attacks.
@awmanspider Thank you for this response, brother. This cleave guy has become way too emboldened for a catechumen and, on top of that, is spreading lies about our faith. Lord, have mercy.
"If you are unironically using the term 'chimp out' to describe black people being upset... that is objectively racist and vile. You are mocking them in a racially abusive way and in the process, belittling yourself below any basic standard of decency."
I respond to some of the insane racism I've seen after the Karmelo Anthony verdict.