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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists unearthed an ancient Coptic tombstone during a dig Sunday (Oct. 22), according to Egypt's antiquities ministry. The tombstone is decorated with a cross and Coptic inscriptions that ...

CAIRO – Egypt's Coptic ... But the Coptic Orthodox Church split from other Christians in 451 A.D. over a dispute about the nature of Christ. Unlike Roman Catholics, they do not believe in ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for two terrorist attacks on Coptic churches in the Egyptian Nile Delta town ... Christ and broke free from the Roman Catholic Church about 400 years ...

Archaeologists unearthed an ancient Coptic tombstone during a dig Sunday (Oct. 22), according to Egypt's antiquities ministry. The tombstone is decorated with a cross and Coptic inscriptions that ...