Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7. The Cops in Egypt, a predominantly Muslim country, are ...

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 7: The Egyptian Ambassador to Kuwait Mohamed Gaber Abou El Wafa participated in the Christmas celebrations ...

The rule of Egypt’s former leader Hosni Mubarak, who died in February at age 91, will be remembered by many for its repressive tactics and the unprecedented Arab Spring protests that led to the ...

This morning, in front of the United Nations, demonstrators will gather in support of the Coptic Christians of Egypt, and the action is coming none too soon, if you ask me. For the better part of 20 ...

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi arrived at the Christmas Mass on Tuesday evening at the Nativity of Christ Cathedral in ...

Reporting from Cairo — Father Metyas Mankarios ministers to garbage men and runs a newspaper for Coptic Christians from an office crammed with brittle archives above vegetable sellers and fishmongers ...

In the Upper Egyptian city of Minya, Coptic women hurry to finish their shopping for the Easter feast, as they always do. "My mother comes over, we watch the prayer at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo on ...

The American Coptic Union (ACU) is urging Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss the continued human rights abuses of Coptic Christians in Egypt during her upcoming meeting with the Egyptian ...

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church has a new pope. The selection and announcement was made today. It is a major event for the Copts, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's 80 million population. Reporter ...

ODAYSSAT, Egypt -- Christians called the flat-top mud and brick building in this little farming community a guest house. But inside, big crucifixes adorned an altar chamber separated from two dozen ...

Makarios, the Coptic bishop of Minya, Egypt, spent a weekend among mourners after two buses carrying Coptic Chris­tians were ambushed as they left a monastery, killing seven of the pilgrims and ...

AL-OUR, Egypt (Reuters) - When Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi dispatched fighter jets this year against Islamic State targets in Libya in retaliation for the beheading of 21 Copts, he sent a ...