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 ...

For most of the Palestinian narrative you have to work around the truth rather than with the truth. You're constantly bending ...

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi sent his warmest greetings to Egyptian Copts abroad on the occasion of Easter.In a message conveyed via Egyptian embassies and consulates' social media pages on Thursday ...

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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, ...

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defense and Military Production Lieutenant General Abdul Majeed Saqr ...

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

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 ...

Bearded Auba Yoanes XIX, Patriarch of Egypt’s ancient Coptic Church, excommunicated the seven, then pardoned them while their abbot raised their allowance to $7.50 per month. On this the monks ...