The Coptic branch of Christianity dates to ... illuminated manuscripts and other treasures culled from Egypt’s desert monasteries. I wandered past security police down an alley that dated ...

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 ...

In the silence of the desert, Matta El Maskine (1919–2006) found God—and transformed modern Coptic monasticism. His life of ...

The Coptic monastery was thought to have been founded ... in the caves of the Gilf Kebir in Egypt, animals are painted on the rocks: rhinoceros and giraffe, elephant and hippopotamus, buffalo ...

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 ...

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned on Sunday the passing of Metropolitan Elder and Acting Patriarch Pakhomious, who died at nearly 90 years old after a lifetime of devoted service to the church ...

When Xenia Nikolskaya first went to Egypt in 2006, she thought she knew what she was looking for. Born and raised in the ...

in the first Coptic church to be established abroad. He entered monastic life at the Virgin Mary's Monastery, known as Deir El-Sourian, in Wadi El-Natroun, in Egypt's western desert. On 11 ...