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...Francisco, Moslem Princess Fathia of Egypt, 19, displeased her brother, Egypt's King Farouk, by marrying Riad Ghali, an Egyptian commoner and a Coptic Christian. Queen Mother Nazli, who has been employing the bridegroom as a political adviser, said that she approved of the marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...exhibition of Venetian Paintings and Drawings, Fench Paintings, and Coptic Art will open at the Fogg on Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Starts New Show of Drawings | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...church itself, there were only Coptic and Orthodox priests swinging censers over Christ's tomb, while in its dim reaches the Franciscans could be heard singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Dead City | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...year. The boss said no. When the committee insisted that the boss could well afford the increase, the boss called the cops, had the committeemen ejected from the premises. Nobody invoked the Wagner Act. The committeemen were monks, the boss was the abbott of the ancient Coptic Christian monastery of Moharrak, 250 miles south of Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Root of All Evil | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...Coptic theology is much like Greek Orthodox. Exception: the nature of Christ's divinity. Copts hold that Christ does not have a "double nature" (human and divine), but a "single nature" in which human and divine are blended. The Council of Chalcedon (A.D 451) condemned the doctrine as heresy, and thus cut the Copts from the main body of early Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Egypt Land | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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