While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

The issue included photographs of the 21 Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christians who were abducted from Sirte, Libya. They were mainly poor migrant workers. The men were abducted between December ...

The Coptic Orthodox Church was founded by St. Mark ... released a video purporting to show the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians who had been kidnapped in Libya. And on New Year's Day 2011 ...

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

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 ...

Coptic Christians base their theology on the teachings ... a suicide bomber targeted a small church attached to St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, killing 25 people and wounding ...

Here's a look at the religion and reaction to the film: Coptic Christians belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church, originally based in the Egyptian Mediterranean city of Alexandria. The church traces ...

Shortly after Samy Ghattas and his family moved to Houston in 1969, he was approached by two fellow Egyptians who wanted to form a Coptic Orthodox Christian community. "We were talking about 10 ...

Father Timotheus Soliman, of St. John the Baptist Coptic Orthodox Church, in Miramar. Orthodox Christians around the world, including members of the Coptic, Russian and Greek Orthodox churches ...

[CAIRO] A year after Hamas’s October 2023 assault on Israel, Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Christians remain divided over how to respond to the ongoing war in Gaza. As the Middle East’s largest ...

NASHVILLE — More than 2,000 Coptic Christians poured into St. Pishoy Coptic Orthodox Church facilities in Antioch Friday night for a chance to see the pope. The smell of incense wafted in the ...