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

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned on Sunday the passing of Metropolitan Elder and Acting Patriarch Pakhomious, who died at nearly 90 years old after a lifetime of devoted service to the church ...

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 ...

in the first Coptic church to be established abroad. He entered monastic life at the Virgin Mary's Monastery, known as Deir El-Sourian, in Wadi El-Natroun, in Egypt's western desert. On 11 ...

When Xenia Nikolskaya first went to Egypt in 2006, she thought she knew what she was looking for. Born and raised in the ...

Few countries grip the imagination quite like Egypt. Just hearing the name conjures images of mighty pharaohs and massive ...

The Coptic monastery was thought to have been founded ... in the caves of the Gilf Kebir in Egypt, animals are painted on the rocks: rhinoceros and giraffe, elephant and hippopotamus, buffalo ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...

Nubia (modern-day Sudan): Between the 6th and 14th centuries, Nubian Christianity flourished, establishing impressive churches, monasteries ... encountering Coptic Christians in Egypt and North ...