no matter what A protest of 3,000 erupted in southern Egypt in response to the killing of a Coptic priest who was found in his home, ...

In the aftermath of President Mohammed Morsi’s overthrow earlier this summer, Egypt’s Coptic Church has faced an onslaught of persecution. Pro-Morsi supporters vented their anger by burning ...

The Coptic branch of Christianity dates to the first century A.D. when, scholars say, St. Mark the Evangelist converted some Jews in Alexandria, the great Greco-Roman city on Egypt’s ...

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Coptic Hospital is a Level 6 mission hospital under the Coptic Orthodox Church. Bishop Paul is the founder of the Coptic ...

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 ...

A year after the ratification of the 2016 law for building churches in Egypt, this research paper explores the roles played by the different actors and institutions that influenced both the ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Father Bigol specifically acknowledged the Egyptian Coptic Church’s annual ghabqa, held for over 25 years under the slogan ...

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned on Sunday the passing of Metropolitan Elder and Acting Patriarch Pakhomious, who died ...