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

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 ...

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 country's Coptic Christians are beginning to reveal the extent of their sufferings at the hands of supporters of former President Mohamed Morsi. Delga in Upper Egypt, a remote village about 150 ...

Egypt has a population of around 111 million people, of whom 90 are Sunni Muslim and 10 are Although they re 11 million ...

Two Russian ballistic missiles struck the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on the morning of Palm Sunday, claiming at ...

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 ...

Brothers Bill and Hal stumble upon their father's old monkey toy in the attic of the house, and a series of shocking murders soon erupt, prompting the brothers to try to get rid of the toy.