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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A policeman has been killed trying to defuse a bomb outside a Coptic Christian church in Egypt, security officials say. Mustafa Abid was reportedly a specialist in mine clearance. The explosion ...

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 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 ...

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.

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