Pope tawadros ii biography of albert
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They stormed the church like madmen. Armed with fire bombs, sticks, and stones, they destroyed everything they encountered while yelling “Allah’u Akbar!” Within a few minutes, the church bus and two cars were on fire, and the church itself was in flames. At the entrance, a man climbed atop the church gate where a cross was firmly fixed. He beat it violently, shoving and kicking it over and over as the mob waved their sticks in support. The cross finally gave in and toppled; the mob below roared with approval. They crowded around the fallen cross and beat it even more with their sticks as if it were alive.
Avenged and victorious, they exited the church, carrying whatever valuables they could lay their hands on. A cloud of dark smoke rose as fire consumed yet another Christian house of worship.
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In August of , Egypt’s Christian minority experienced a wave of violence and terrorism — within a period of two weeks, more than eighty churches were burned down or attacked by Islamic
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Fight over Christmas Hints of Looming Coptic Schism
On the night of January 6, millions of Copts worldwide flocked to their churches to celebrate the Nativity liturgy just as they had done for centuries. This year, however, for a few of them something must have seemed odd or rather too repetitive. For just 13 days earlier, on the eve of December 25, some of them had witnessed the same event. The first of its kind event has created a firestorm in their church.
It all started with a letter:
Therefore, to respond to the pastoral needs and concerns of those faithful members of the Church, it is permitted for our parish churches, on condition that there is pastoral need, to have ADDITIONAL celebration of the Feast, starting with Vespers and Midnight Praise on the evening of 24 December, and Matins and Eucharistic liturgy according to the rite of the Nativity Feast on the morning of December 25 without breaking the Advent fast.
The words were not supposed to go public. They were wr
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Tewodros II
Emperor of Ethiopia from to
For the Coptic Pope, see Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria.
Tewodros II (Ge'ez: ዳግማዊ ቴዎድሮስ, once referred to by the English cognate Theodore; baptized as Kassa, c.&#; – 13 April ) was Emperor of Ethiopia from until his death in His rule is often placed as the beginning of modern Ethiopia and brought an end to the decentralized Zemene Mesafint (Era of the Princes).[1]
Although Tewodros II's origins were in the Era of the Princes, his ambitions were not those of the regional nobility. He sought to re-establish a cohesive Ethiopian state and to reform its ledning and church.
Tewodros II's first task after having reunited the other provinces was to bring Shewa under his control. During the Era of the Princes, Shewa was, even more than most provinces, an independent entity, its ruler even styling han själv Negus, the title for King. In the course of subduing the Shewans, Tewodros took with him a Shewan prince, Sahle Marya