Meeting on a possible forced closure of the world’s oldest continuously active Christian monastery, Greek and Egyptian ...

Pope Tawadros II, the head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, and Pope Leo XIV, head of the Vatican, praised Egypt’s ...

One bus was carrying a family returning from a baptism. CAIRO -- At least seven people were killed and at least 19 others were injured in an attack on several buses carrying Coptic Christians near ...

A ruling by an Egyptian court transferring ownership of one of the world's oldest monasteries to the state has provoked ...

The future of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula remains a source of controversy with tensions rising after ...

The 64-year-old Coptic abbot was discovered near his cell at the Monastery of St. Macarius ... Enforced disappearances are not uncommon in Egypt, according to Amnesty International.

CAIRO — It was one of Egypt's most sensational murders ... turning a spotlight on a cloistered world of intrigue within the nation's Coptic Christian priesthood. Then, something more predictable ...

Naqada boasts a history that stretches back to ancient Egypt, with its name originating from the hieroglyphic word Nekhet. However, it is the Coptic Christian monasteries that have made this town ...

Think of Egypt and the first thing that comes to ... Scholars have called the Red Monastery “the Coptic Sistine chapel.” Its walls are covered with paintings of the church’s prophets ...

Egypt says the sovereignty of a famous monastery is assured. Egypt’s foreign minister on Wednesday told his Greek counterpart ...

Conservation experts say St. Anthony's, named after one of the founders of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church, vies for the title of oldest Christian monastery with the nearby monastery of St. Paul.