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

In 2015, the Islamic State released a video purporting to show the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians who had been kidnapped in Libya. And on New Year's Day 2011, a bombing at a Coptic church in ...

Egyptian fighter jets struck militant bases in eastern Libya late Friday in retaliation for an attack by masked gunmen on a caravan of Coptic Christians that left 28 people dead. In a televised ...

A gun attack that killed at least 26 Coptic Christians on a bus in Egypt is just the latest assault on the religious minority group, which has been a target for deadly violence throughout its history.

Instead, gunmen killed at least 24 Coptic Christians as they made their way via bus to a monastery in Minya, south of Cairo. Copts are the largest Christian group in the Middle East, and they ...

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

A heart-wrenching new film recounts the beheadings 10 years ago this week of 21 Coptic Christians at the hands of ISIS radicals. Yet the film, simply titled "The 21," also tells the poignant story ...

“To the Coptic Christian community living throughout the United States,” it read, “I deeply admire your Steadfast Faith in God, Perseverance through Centuries of Persecution and Love for ...

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

On June 1, an 18-year-old, middle-class Coptic Christian woman in Upper Egypt went to school as usual – but was then caught ...