While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

The Coptic Catholic Church is part of the Catholic Eastern Churches and is based in Cairo. Egypt counts seven dioceses of the church; an estimated 15 million Egyptians are Copts, according to Pope ...

The Coptic Orthodox Church, an Oriental Orthodox Church, is not to be confused with the Coptic Catholic Church ... Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo in December 2016.

A quiet yet symbolically significant gathering took place on May 17 at the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in Cairo.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Tawadros, the Coptic ... in Cairo at a time in which Egypt’s Orthodox Christians were reeling from a spate of Islamic militant suicide bombings at churches that killed ...

The Martyrology of the Catholic Church is considered ... meeting between a pope and Coptic Patriarch took place when Shenouda III met with Pope John Paul II in Cairo in February 2000, during ...

The Catholic Church recognizes the ... with Tawadros II during a visit to Cairo in 2017. “The visit of their patriarch is a very important event for Coptic Christians in Italy and very many ...

Francis then visited Tawadros in 2017 at the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Cairo at a time in which Egypt’s Orthodox ... According to the Vatican’s ecumenical norms, Catholic churches are “generally ...