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

On January 19, Orthodox ... the 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 ...

Coptic Orthodox Churches on Tuesday ... the elderly and children to the festive mass for the feast of the Virgin Mary. The celebration ceremony was presided over by Father Royce Morcos at the Orthodox ...

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 ...

Pastor Paul Halim, a spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that it had been agreed within the church to change the nature of the celebrations this year due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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 ...

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 ...