While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic Church ... Today there exists in Egypt the Coptic rite which is Orthodox and the Coptic rite that ...

Dr. Etienne Berchtold, Austrian Ambassador to the UAE, said that the "Ambassadors of Coexistence" initiative, launched by the Manara Centre for Coexistence and Dialogue at Sorbonne University Abu ...

Coptic monk Matta El Maskine became known as one of the key figures in the renewal of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the restorer of the iconic Monastery of Saint Macarius. (Image by Kristelle ...

A day earlier, three Coptic Orthodox monks met a similar fate, stabbed to death at their church in Cullinan, a small mining town northeast of Pretoria. Reports from local media indicate that ...

Discovered in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, the Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of ancient texts that has ...

Semi-autonomous region has signed multibillion-dollar agreements with US companies HKN Energy and WesternZagros to develop ...

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church mourned Thursday evening the late Queen Elizabeth II of United Kingdom and the head of Church of England, after her death earlier in the day at the age of 96.

The Coptic Orthodox Church, led by Pope Tawadros II and its Holy Synod, congratulated the global Catholic Church on the election of Cardinal Robert Francis as the 267th Pope of the Vatican.

A court ruling in Egypt about St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai has sparked grave concern within the Greek Orthodox Church ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world ...