1:01 am: The funeral service is over. 12:56 am: The priest announces that all of the martyrs will be buried together in a collective Christian cemetary in 6 October City. A commotion errupts as the ...

The structure, history and practices of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the main Christian Church in Egypt and one of the oldest churches outside the Holy Land. The Coptic Orthodox Church is the main ...

The Coptic Church, which has withstood diverse and enormous challenges throughout its history, now has its very existence threatened after the downfall of Hosni Mubarak's regime. Media reports on ...

A group of monks belonging to the Coptic Church are locked in an 18-month planning battle to build an 'alien-looking' site of worship for just 100 members on the North Yorkshire Moors. The church is ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. Sept 14 (Reuters) - A small group of women at the Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mark's prepared for Sunday services in the parish's simple basement kitchen, baking cookies and neatly ...

It didn't sound like Christmas to Western ears, but it was an ancient expression of joy in the birth of Jesus. These were not traditional carols, but brass cymbals and the clang of a triangle ...

Coptic Christians in Egypt have long felt vulnerable and marginalised Egypt's public prosecutor says 48 suspected members of so-called Islamic State (IS) have been referred to a military court in ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Among the Christians of the Middle East, the ...

Bishop Epiphanius was found bludgeoned to death in July 2018 at Saint Macarius monastery A Coptic Christian monk who was convicted over the 2018 killing of the head of an ancient Egyptian desert ...