O n June 1, an 18-year-old, middle-class Coptic Christian woman in Upper Egypt went to school as usual – but was then caught in a web of Islamist students, administrators, police and sheikhs ...

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The man had been involved with a Muslim woman—taboo throughout ... general Amr ibn al-As swept into Egypt, encountering little resistance. Arabic replaced Coptic as the national language ...

A Sydney Coptic woman’s apparent murder has triggered a ... The couple belonged to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria in Egypt, which has followers from across Africa and the Middle ...

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned Pope Francis on Monday, saying he was "a true example of Christian humility".

Someone infiltrated with an explosive belt weighing six kilograms,” one woman said ... were the latest in a series of attacks on Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, who account for ...