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 ...

CAIRO (AP) — A couple hundred Christian protesters clashed with police in southern Egypt after holding a demonstration on Tuesday in front of a police station demanding authorities locate an abducted ...

CAIRO - Twenty-five people died in an explosion at a church adjoining Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral on Sunday, the worst attack on a Christian place of worship in majority Muslim Egypt in decades. The ...

You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. In Cairo today, several thousand Christians paraded through the streets. They gathered to mark the first anniversary of a similar march, one ...

They are expressions of faith by a caste of minority entrepreneurs that, since Mubarak’s ouster and the election last year of Egypt’s Islamist-dominated government, is being challenged like never ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Copts, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, marked a solemn Easter this year, a week after suicide bombers struck churches in two cities, killing dozens of ...

It’s been barely a month since the historic uprising toppled Egypt’s longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. The ruling military is struggling to maintain order, but last Tuesday night clashes broke out ...

Several hundred of the area’s Coptic Christians yesterday called on the American government to withhold funding from Egypt until President Mubarak agrees to make a serious effort to protect the rights ...

CAIRO -- Under pressure from fundamentalist forms of Islam and bursts of sectarian violence, the most populous Christian community in the Middle East is seeking safety by turning inward, cutting ...

The Washington Post reports that clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians in a Cairo suburb left 12 people dead over the weekend. On Saturday night in a northwest section of the city, a mob of ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church chose a new pope, Tawadros II, in a sumptuous service on Sunday and Christians hope he will lead them through an Islamist-dominated landscape and ...