Pope Tawadros: Challenges: enormous… Hope: far greater
Last July, I had the privilege of interviewing Pope Tawadros II. It was a long talk that delved deep into ...
Tag: Coptic Orthodox Church
2025: Year of blessings
I headed to St Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo last July to meet Pope Tawadros II, with my thoughts depressingly occupied ...
Nine principles for nine new bishops
On 1 June 2025, the Feast of the Entry of the Holy Family into Egypt, Pope Tawadros completed the consecration ...
Coptic Church condemns bombing of Gaza hospital, donates humanitarian aid
The Coptic Orthodox Church issued a statement last evening, 17 October, regarding the bombing of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza. ...
50 years on reviving the Clerical College in Alexandria
The evening of 26 February 2022 saw Pope Tawadros lead the Coptic Orthodox Church in celebrating a special anniversary: the ...
“No monopoly on suffering”
The date 15 February will always be etched in the memory of Copts as the gruesome day on which video ...
Logos Forum for Coptic Youth: JOY in roots
At Logos Centre in the Western Desert monastery of Anba Bishoy in Wadi al-Natroun, some 120km northwest Cairo, Pope Tawadros ...
Church issues report on the execution of man charged with murdering Abbot of St Macarius Monastery
The Coptic Orthodox Church has issued a report on the execution on the 37-year-old defrocked monk Wael Saad Tawadros who ...
Church statement on execution of murderer of St Macarius’s Abbot
Photographs and video footage of the 10 May funeral of 37-year-old Wael Saad Tawadros, who was executed on 9 May ...
Execution of defrocked monk who murdered Abbot of St Macarius Monastery
The defrocked monk Wael Saad Tawadros who was convicted of murdering Anba Epiphanius, Abbot of St Macarius Monastery in Wadi ...
Women’s rights in a wider scope
In this issue of 9 May 2021, Watani publishes coverage of a recent initiative launched by the Coptic Orthodox Church ...
Story of first church in Giza
In the late 19th century, there were no churches in the town of Giza. Copts today may find this difficult ...
Mar-Girgis Convent produces book and documentary on Holy Family in Egypt
Whereas the story of the flight of the Holy Family—the Child Jesus, His mother Mary, and St Joseph—into Egypt is ...
Communion for defrocked monk sentenced to death for killing Abbot of St Macarius Monastery
In his capacity as head of the Holy Synod’s committee for care and service, Anba Domadius, Bishop of 6 October ...
Highest court: death sentence for killer of St Macarius’s Abbot, life sentence for accomplice
The Court of Cassation, the highest court in Egypt, has today 1 July 2020 approved the death sentence handed by ...
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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