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Today marks Palm Sunday in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt. The events start on the eve of the day. Copts weave palm fronds into crosses, hearts, colts, and little trinkets and rings for children, and decorate them with flowers. They then flock to church for the festive Vespers services that feature joyful Palm Sunday melodies singing of Jesus’s triumphal entry in Jerusalem. The following day Palm Sunday Mass is celebrated. Churches are usually packed with a happy congregation; the day is among the most joyful in the year.
Once Palm Sunday festivities end at around noon, Passion Week starts. Churches replace their usual red sanctuary drapes with black ones; columns are also draped in black ribbons. The Pascha (literally Passover) services with their traditional sad, plaintive, protracted melodies are held three times a day for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Saturday of Light or Joy are each marked with their special rituals. Again churches are packed with worshippers; the week is widely regarded as the most sacred in the whole year, and ends with rejoicing in the Resurrection on Easter Eve.

Watani International
5 April 2015

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Watani started as an Egyptian weekly Sunday newspaper published in Cairo. The word Watani is Arabic for “My Homeland”. The paper was founded in 1958 by the prominent Copt Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995), who strove for the establishment of a civil, democratic society in Egypt, where all Egyptians would enjoy full citizenship rights regardless of their religious denomination. To this day when Watani is published as a weekly paper and an online news site, the objective remains the same. Those in charge of Watani view this role as a patriotic all-Egyptian vocation. Special attention is given to shedding light on Coptic culture and tradition as authentically Egyptian, this being a topic largely disregarded or little-understood by Egypt’s media. Watani is deeply dedicated to offer its readers high quality, extensive, objective, credible and well-researched media coverage, with special focus on Coptic issues, culture, heritage, and contribution to Egyptian society.
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