The Copts represent a living link to the region’s ancient history and its religious diversity, which is now under systematic threat.

Egyptian police have killed 19 gunmen involved in an ambush that killed seven Coptic Christians south ... on two buses carrying Christians near the Monastery of St Samuel the Confessor in Minya ...

A number of Coptic monasteries, including the Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Assiut Governorate in Upper Egypt, closed their doors to visitors. The Monastery of Saint Anthony in the Red ...

The whole area-the Monastery and its surroundings - is redolent of the Coptic Christian ethos So hallowed are its intimations that the Copts of Egypt named it the Second Bethlehem. It was here at the ...

Al-Muharraq Monastery is located, literally ... Isthmus of al Qantara on which already Abraham (Gen 12:10), Jacob and his sons traveled into Egypt. The Coptic Synaxar (calendar of the saints) records ...

According to legend, it was St. Mark who introduced Christianity to Egypt, and it was here that Africa's first Christian church – the Coptic Church of Egypt – thrived. To learn more about ...

The Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt, in conjunction with the global Catholic Church, has categorically denied rumors suggesting the possibility of ordaining individuals with same-sex attraction as ...

The attacks in Egypt have subsided recently amid ... The Egyptian ambassador to South Africa visited the monastery following the attack, the Coptic Orthodox Church of South Africa said.

The bus was heading towards a local monastery, a senior Coptic cleric says. The Islamic State group says it carried out the attack. Islamist militants have targeted Egypt's Coptic Christian ...

Coptic Christians make up Egypt’s largest Christian minority ... speaking to The Media Line from a Franciscan monastery in ...