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The Widow of Nain
O my Lord, Jesus Christ, What a heart of compassion you are! You saw and felt my deep sorrow Even before me asking! All that I could do was weeping! Weeping over my beloved son! There in his shroud -- carried out to be buried! -- from “The Widow of Nain” by Alice...
Walking with the Wounded Child
Sometimes, innocent drawings are windows to tragedy. When Heba* started drawing and her Coptic Orphans Rep asked the right questions, a horrifying event unfolded. The ancient African practice of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, (FGM/C) known in Egypt as “female...
Video: Coptic Orphans’ High Achievers in Cairo
A few months ago, Coptic Orphans held a High Achievers Ceremony celebrating children and youth who did great things: excelled academically, overcame tough challenges and perfected their talents. Now, with the results of Thanaweya Amma (least year of high school)...
Orphaned by Conversion?
Coptic Orphans has two criteria for accepting a child into our flagship program, Not Alone: the child's father must be deceased, or the child's father abandons the family -- such as when the father have converted from Christianity. That's because conversion in Egypt...
Another Rep Becomes A Priest
Ayman Zohair was always a faithful son of the Church. He poured himself out for 15 years with Coptic Orphans and a number of the other services his diocese offered. For Coptic Orphans alone, he spent 10-20 hours every week visiting fatherless families in neighborhoods...
Will Egypt Empty Out?
I was having dinner recently with a group of Copts who had just moved to the United States. I asked one of them whether he missed Egypt. “I miss my life in Egypt,” he responded, “but that Egypt is gone. That train has definitely pulled out of the station.” That really...
How Evangelicals Can Help Copts: Response to Brian Stiller
Last Friday, Brian Stiller of the World Evangelical Alliance rightly wrote that “Egypt is a bellwether for the Middle East. If Christians (12% of the population) walk away, the power and presence of Christian ideals will lose by default.” Despite the pervasive social,...
Raising Generations for Egypt’s Future
The following is a guest post from Serve to Learn alumnus Mariam Magar, who talks about how Coptic Orphans goes beyond handouts to help address the lies that trap children in poverty, and so works to strengthen Egypt as a whole. I was blessed to join Coptic Orphans’...
4 Ways Sponsors Can Reflect God’s Fatherhood
One of my favorite verses in the Bible these days is Hosea 11:1: “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.” (ESV) I find so much in this verse about the fatherhood of God and the story of my own adoption in Christ through the Holy...
A Widow Gains the Advantage
In Iman’s village near Assuit in Southern Egypt, it is not considered acceptable for a woman, let alone a widow to start a public business. But for Iman, depending on someone to support her family was not an option. Since her husband’s death, Iman had struggled to...
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