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 heart-wrenching new film recounts the beheadings 10 years ago this week of 21 Coptic Christians at the hands of ISIS radicals. Yet the film, simply titled "The 21," also tells the poignant story ...

Faced with a mortal decision, the captives chose to die. Animated in a neo-Coptic style evocative of the long history of Orthodox art, The 21 pairs earthly realities with spiritual ones.

The Duchess of Sussex insists her surname has changed in her new Netflix show, With Love. Meghan's highly-anticipated series dropped today and shows her joined by a host of celebrity pals ...

Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet have two surnames - Mountbatten-Windsor - for one very specific reason. During an episode of her new series, With Love, Meghan, the 43-year-old former royal ...

Her father, a clerk at a telephone company in Cairo, passed away when she was young. Her family was Coptic. She attended Zeitoun’s Notre Dame des Apôtres (Our Lady of the Apostles), where she ...

the ruins of St. Colmcille’s sixth-century monastery and the intriguing Tau Cross that suggests early seafaring links to the Coptic Christians of Egypt. The island also boasts an abundance of ...

On 28 January, Coptic Orphans in Cairo hosted a screening of The 21, a short animated film honoring the 21 Coptic Martyrs, which was also shortlisted for the Oscars. On 15 February, 2015, ISIS ...

Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie also used York as their surname before marriage, after their father's title as Duke of York. The children of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, however, use ...