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

When the followers of Jesus Christ began to spread their faith after the crucifixion in Roman times, St. Mark visited the city of Alexandria, Egypt. Egyptian Christians or Coptic Christians have ...

Archaeologists uncovered murals of Joseph and Jesus in a newly found 6th-century building, revealing deep spiritual roots in ...

Turmoil in Egypt has led to one of the worst persecutions of the country's Coptic Christians in their ... but they have one thing in common with the Roman Catholics: they elect a pope.

Located in Fustat (Old Cairo), the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is like no other. The museum is dedicated ...

“To the Coptic Christian community living throughout ... ‘Washington is targeting the Roman Catholic Church in a brazen act of religious discrimination,’ the lawsuit states.

The Egyptian language evolved for thousands of years, but its final form—Coptic—continues to hold cultural and religious significance today. This video explores how Coptic developed from ...

But the current dig reveals an even broader and more structured religious settlement, one that may completely change everything we know about Egypt’s Coptic heritage. These revelations also ...

Elke Fuchs/Institut für Papyrologie, Universität Heidelberg All of them were written in Coptic, which is the last stage in the development of the Egyptian language. Coptic was spoken in Egypt ...

Pope Francis with Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II in Cairo April 28 (Credit: CNS/Paul Haring.) Listen ROME – This week there will again be “two popes” at the Vatican when Francis meets his ...

Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, has died. He was 88. The state ...