Children singing religious songs during a Christmas Eve service at the St. Kliment Central Orthodox Church in Skopje, North Macedonia. A Coptic Orthodox clergy member walks past worshippers as he ...

Semyon Antonov / TASS / Getty Images An Orthodox believer lights a candle during a Christmas liturgy at the Church of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Khaled Desouki / AFP Coptic Christians ...

He praised the hospitality and tolerance accorded to the members of the Egyptian Coptic community and other communities in the UAE and the freedom they enjoy in practicing their religion.