The remarkable story of Cairo's Zabbaleen, who turn the city's rubbish into valuable resources in a stunning example of ...

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 ...

highlighting the beauty and significance of Coptic art. The exhibition in the museum's Egyptian Textile Hall offers visitors a rare opportunity to explore the rich heritage of one of Egypt's most ...

This depicts Saint Gabra Manfus Qeddus, who is believed to have been born in the ninth century in Egypt. Legend has it ... emperor Tewodros from a church or monastery at an unidentified location ...

Today there exists in Egypt the Coptic rite which is Orthodox and the ... to the work of St. Maron in the 4th century who founded a monastery east of Antioch. Later monks moved to the mountains ...

The Russian team discovered their find near a monastery ... with ancient Egypt, the practice sustained itself into the Greco-Roman era. The region had Islamic and Coptic monuments along with ...

According to church tradition, the monastery marks the spot where Jesus ... massacre of children, and flight to Egypt in Matthew. Some suspect that the Gospel writers located Jesus’ Nativity ...

Yohanna Yassa, a Coptic priest who has ministered at ... In the Deir al Adra monastery, in Minya, Egypt, Muslims and Christians alike light candles to commemorate the Holy Family’s stay during ...

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 ...

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 ...