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.

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

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 ...

The Coptic calendar and language should be kept so we don’t dissolve into the western church.” Roman Catholicism is a comparative latecomer to Egypt, arriving in the 19th century, when Italian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

a Bible Society headquarters and Christian schools - Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Coptic - were attacked in Cairo, Upper Egypt, Sinai and the Suez, during a 48-hour period. State Department ...

Making up about 10% of Egypt’s population of 90 million, the Coptic Orthodox form the largest ... when Egypt was integrated into the Roman and later the Byzantine empire. The word "Copt" comes ...