Nine people have been killed in two attacks on Coptic Christians in Helwan district, south of Cairo, Egypt's interior ministry has said. Six civilians and a policeman died when a gunman tried to ...

Prosecutors in Egypt have charged a defrocked monk with the murder of a Coptic Christian Bishop at a desert monastery. Bishop Epiphanius, 64, was found dead in a pool of blood at Saint Macarius ...

The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity Jean-Luc Fournet Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official ...

A huge social media campaign was launched against an Egyptian Coptic priest, known as Zakaria Botros, yesterday over a video of him insulting Prophet Mohammad. Not only Muslims were triggered by ...

Copts also face persecution from fellow Egyptians ... during an era of such widespread Christian persecution in Egypt, World Coptic Day will hopefully be a testament of solidarity with the ...

Three Egyptian Coptic monks have been "brutally killed" inside a monastery in South Africa, the Church has said. Father Takla Moussa, Father Minah ava Marcus and Father Youstos ava Marcus were ...

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 ...

Coptic Christians make up Egypt’s largest Christian minority and ... Despite their numbers, both Copts and Evangelicals face ...