President Donald Trump recently joined the Coptic Orthodox Christian community in observing Global Coptic Day — a celebration ...

On January 19, the Orthodox ... eve of the feast on January 18 and on January 19 after the liturgy. According to church canons, after priests recite the prayers and immerse the cross three times ...

The list is ordered according to the Church’s calendar of feast days. The pope met with Tawadros II and other Coptic Orthodox representatives at the Vatican May 11. In his speech, Pope Francis ...

The Vatican will likely designate Feb. 15 as their feast day, the same day the Coptic Orthodox Church honors them, officials said. Tawadros was at the Vatican to commemorate the 50th anniversary ...

Noting that Feb. 15, the day on which the 21 Copts were killed, is now observed by Coptic Orthodox as a feast day for martyrs in the modern era, he said the gift of the relics is so that they ...

The feast of the martyrs, referred to as the 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya, is celebrated on Feb. 15 in both the Catholic Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church. During the Coptic leader’s visit to ...