At least 41 people died from smoke inhalation and a stampede when a fire swept through a Coptic Orthodox church on Sunday. The church said a generator started the blaze. By Jane Arraf and Nada ...

In a speech during a meeting with Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and other Coptic Orthodox representatives on May 11, 2023, Pope Francis announced that the ...

President Donald Trump recently joined the Coptic Orthodox Christian community in observing Global Coptic Day — a celebration ...

Tawadros, the Coptic Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt ... “And speaking of martyrs of the Coptic Church, who are ours as well, I want to remember the martyrs on the Libyan beach, who ...

The historical area centers around Saint Menas, who died in the early days of Christianity and is buried at the site that was inscribed in 1979 on the list of globally treasured natural and cultural s ...

The Coptic Orthodox Church is the largest Christian denomination in majority Muslim Egypt and was founded by the apostle, St. Mark, in Alexandria in the 1st century. It is one of the Oriental ...

Based in Egypt, the Coptic Orthodox Church, also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Orthodox Christian church which traces its founding to the Apostle Mark, hailed as ...

The Catholic Church recognizes the Orthodox Church’s ... heads of the Churches of Rome and Alexandria after a millennium and a half of estrangement.” The Coptic Orthodox Church based in ...