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Spring Youth Conference 2007

  In February 2007 there was a beautiful conference in Northampton about living as a Christian.  The main speaker was Abouna Anthony from Washington DC, who gave us five awe-inspiring talks.  Those who listened to the talks felt blessed to hear such jewels of wisdom not only spoken with eloquence but also with a light-hearted …

Medjugorje Trip 2006

[trailer] On Friday 20th October about 25 people set off from the Coptic centre in the morning. We were anticipating a peaceful, interesting, purifying experience. We all boarded the bus and set off on a two-hour journey to London Luton. The bus journey seemed to go by very quickly and before we knew it we …

The Ranch Secondary School Retreat 2006

“At about 8.00PM Friday 25th August, Abouna Youhana, Aunt Heba, Mark Georgy, Joe and I, set off from our meeting pointing just north of Birmingham with 4 or 5 cars travelling behind us. We were set off for north Wales and expecting a simple straight forward 2-3 hour journey, to Snowdonia in North Wales.  We took …

Summer Youth Conference 2006

As soon as we settled in, the conference was under way straight away – we had our first talk with HG Bishop Paul followed by a fantastic film of Mother Theresa. Saturday was blessed with His Grace’s fiery, inspiring talks and afterwards there was a Coptic youth burst at football. After supper some were still …