CAIRO (AP) — A council of Egypt's Coptic Christians voted on Monday in a process that will lead to the selection of a new pope for the ancient church, as the community struggles to assert its identity ...

WADI NATROUN, Egypt - Pope Shenouda III, a giant figure for 40 years at the helm of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, has been laid to rest in a desert monastery after a moving funeral Mass at a Cairo ...

Transparency on any level has never really been a modern Egyptian strongpoint. Crucial transitional moments — like Hosni Mubarak’s ouster or President Mohamed Morsy outmaneuvering his rival, the ...

Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II warned that certain recent technological innovations, particularly mobile ...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – 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, died Saturday. He ...

In a Cairo church bombed by the Islamic State group just months ago, Pope Francis and the Coptic Orthodox patriarch sat side by side Friday and prayed near tangible reminders of the horrific attack.

Egypt's Coptic pope should arrive at The Cleveland Clinic on Wednesday for surgery on a broken thigh, according to Pope Shenouda III, 84, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church, fell in his bedroom ...

CAIRO — Egypt's Coptic Christian pope delivered an unprecedented direct criticism of the Islamist president Tuesday after a mob attack on the church's main cathedral, saying he had failed to protect ...

Egypt’s Christians feel sidelined, ignored and neglected by Muslim Brotherhood-led authorities, who proffer assurances but have taken little or no action to protect them from violence, Coptic Pope ...

It would be unfair and inaccurate to say that Egypt’s Muslim-Christian problems started with the January 2011 revolution. After all, Coptic Christian churches in Egypt were hit in two separate deadly ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Egyptian head of the Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros, made a rare visit to Jerusalem to preside over the funeral on Saturday of a Coptic bishop. The previous Coptic pope banned ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- 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, died Saturday. He was ...