The Egyptian army's crackdown on Mohamed Morsi's Cairo supporters unleashed the largest attack on Coptic houses of worship since 1321. ... Roman columns were engraved in the walls.

BOB: Which is why so many Coptic Christians are fleeing their homes and churches and a number want to leave Egypt altogether. This is especially true in the northern Sinai , which is near civil war.

Al Fustat (Coptic Cairo/Old Cairo) is ranked #6 out of 22 things to do in Cairo. See pictures and our review of Al Fustat (Coptic Cairo/Old Cairo).

CAIRO – The Coptic Orthodox community in Egypt is reeling from the recent murder of the abbot of St. Macarius Monastery, apparently by traditionalists of his own faith, in the fourth-century ...

Coptic monuments in Cairo. Most of them are located in Babylon Fortress area, with an area of about half a square kilometer. There are inside it the Coptic museum; six Coptic churches and a monastery ...

Coptic Orthodox Christians gather as they attend a Palm Sunday mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery, in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt, April 9, 2023. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Tawadros, the Coptic Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, joined Francis on the stage for the entirety of Francis’ weekly general audience.

E gypt has drained the groundwater that had collected below a centuries-old Christian site in a bid to get it removed from the United Nations cultural agency's list of endangered world heritage sites.

Donated to Brandeis by Maury A. Bromsen, this manuscript is part of the Rare Non-Western Manuscripts collection. The text is 14 pages long, with a written surface of roughly 5.5” x 4” and dates to the ...

June 1 marks Global Coptic Day, a worldwide celebration of the rich history and enduring faith of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The day commemorates the Holy Family’s biblical journey to Egypt ...

The head of the Coptic Church is scheduled to offer the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the Catholic Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on May 14. According to Father Martin Browne, an official ...