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

It was shown just after of an ecumenical prayer service in St. Peter's Basilica to mark the Catholic Church's first-ever Feast of the Coptic Martyrs ... 250 km south of Cairo, and had migrated ...

Coptic-Catholic Friendship Day, Tawadros II also sent a letter to the pope in which he seemed to predict the resolution of current tensions: “The beautiful relationship between our churches ...

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

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic Church ... St. Mark the evangelist. This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is ...

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

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "Purgatory:" 1031. "The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment ...

The Coptic Church estimates the community at 15-18 million, the Copts of Egypt Coalition said in a statement on Tuesday. The Church's statistics are more reliable than those of the Central Agency ...

Egypt is planning on developing a mega tourist city near the Greek Orthodox Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai.

Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain ...

The Egyptian president also approved the building of a new Coptic Orthodox church in new Cairo, according to the official gazette. The long-awaited law, the 13 articles of which have been ...