OUR WORK AND HISTORY IN EGYPT
Over 20 Comboni Missionaries work in Egypt. We serve the refugees, especially those coming from Sudan and the Horn of Africa. We run four parishes and we try to create a missionary awareness in the Egyptian Church through the Mission Promotion Ministry.
We also build bridges with the Muslim society through our schools, where Muslim and Christian students learn together, and through the Dar Comboni Institute (Arabic and Islamic Studies Institute), which fosters, through its activities, dialogue with Muslims, giving at the same time a background preparation for Church personnel and committed lay people who will be working among Christian communities living in an Islamic environment.

CORDI JESU Catholic Church CAIRO
The building of this Church was founded by St. Daniel Comboni himself as a place of training and acclimatization for missionaries on the way to Sudan. Still today Cordi Jesu remains as a precious memory of the seed planted by St. Daniel Comboni which sprang into a living church.
This community is where the Delegation Superior of the Comboni Missionaries in Egypt resides. Its members minister to  the Christians living in the area, support educational programs for children in some of the most destitute areas of Cairo, welcome several Christian groups, promote missionary awareness in the local church, especially amongst the youth. Some of them are trained to embrace the religious life with the Comboni Missionaries.

ASWAN
The Catholic Church of Aswan is one of the earliest communities of the Comboni Missionaries. It was founded in 1895. The Comboni Missionaries community is committed to the service of the poor and the missionary awareness of the local church in collaboration with the Comboni Sisters, who also run a dispensary and a school with about 850 students. In the same Parish, the Comboni Missionaries serve the faithful of the Latin Rite, while a diocesan catholic priest renders his pastoral and liturgical service to those of Coptic Catholic Rite.

St. JOSEPH ZAMALEK Catholic Church CAIRO
Around the year 1888, some missionaries and a group of Sudanese displaced people fleeing from the revolution of the Mahdi in Northern Sudan and the persecution of Christian institutions, sought refuge in Egypt. The Comboni Missionaries decided to look for a place to accommodate them. The Egyptian government supported the initiative and, for quite a small sum, offered to them some land located on the island called Gezirat (known today as Zamalek), which until then had been mainly used to lodge soldiers. Zamalek was in fact the Turkish name for "barracks". Since many of these Sudanese were former slaves(fugitives or freed ones), the centre was later named "Antislavery Colony Leon XIII". The colony gradually closed down during the first years of the century, once the Mahdi Revolution had finished.

SACRED HEART - SAKAKINI Catholic Church in CAIRO
The Sacred Heart Parish has been serving the refugee and displaced Southern Sudanese community living in Cairo since 1984.  The church is located in the city center in the district of Abbassiya. Regular worship services in both Arabic and English, and Christian educational programs for all age groups are available for the community to attend. In addition, the church offers educational, health, income generation and cultural programs for the wider African refugee community from all faiths so that upon resettlement or repatriation their opportunities for successful integration will be enhanced and Sudanese cultural heritage is preserved.

DAR COMBONI FOR ARABIC STUDIES - CAIRO
The origin of Dar Comboni is linked to the need the Comboni family felt to train their members assigned to Egypt, Sudan or the Middle East in the Arabic language. The Institute was initially opened in Lebanon but due  to the escalation of the civil war, it was transferred to the Sakakini site in Cairo. In the meantime, several Institutes asked to join the Comboni Missionaries in the preparation of their members who had the same objectives.  At the end of the school year 1993-1994, Dar Comboni moved from the Sakakini site to Zamalek-Cairo where the community of Comboni Missionaries and the Institute reside at present.

HELWAN
In Helwan, a city located 30km of Cairo, the Comboni Missionaries run the Sacred Family Parish and the Sacred Family School. Both were founded in 1887. The school has 1400 students, both Muslim and Christians and covers all grades from KG to Secondary School. The Parish serves the poor of the area and welcomes different groups (Biblical Group, Legion of Mary, Youth Groups...). The Parish also meets the health needs of the people in the surrounding areas through the running of a small out-patient clinic.

COMBONI MISSIONARY SISTERS
We are an international community of consecrated Catholic women who walk beyond our own personal, family, geographical, social, cultural and religious boundaries in order to witness to our faith by reaching out to those on the margins of our world who have not yet experienced Christ's message of hope and salvation. We were founded by St. Daniel Comboni in 1872. He wanted holy and capable missionaries. Holy because without "the impetus of that love set alight by the divine flame on Calvary hill" is not possible to face any difficulty in the missionary life.
In Egypt more than 100 Comboni Sisters work in the fields of health, women's promotion, education, inter-religious and ecumenical dialogue, justice and peace, leaders training and missionary awareness of the local church through our communities spread over Upper and Lower Egypt(Aswan, Luxor, Nazalet Khater, Helwan, Cairo Alessandria).