Coptic artist Adel Nassif has been retelling Egypt's Christian history in beautiful icons in an effort to push back against what he describes as a trend towards low-quality mass production. “The time ...

History is rife with instances in which art was used to deliver a specific message or set of beliefs; one of the most fascinating examples is Coptic iconography – an art form that first came to life ...

Customs officers at Cairo airport have seized three ancient Coptic icons that someone attempted to smuggle to the United States. Customs chief Mohamed al-Shahat said that personnel was suspicious of a ...

CAIRO, July 31 (UPI) -- Cairo airport customs officials said Wednesday they confiscated three ancient Coptic icons that a traveler tried to smuggle to the United States. The Egyptian publicly funded ...

CAIRO, EGYPT—Customs officials seized three ancient Coptic Christian icons at the Cairo airport. The parcel was headed to the United States, but the intercepted icons were rerouted to the Ministry of ...

This neighborhood in southern Cairo is the oldest part of the city, with twisting alleyways and ancient churches that are several centuries older than the ornate mosques of Islamic Cairo. According to ...

A gun attack that killed at least 26 Coptic Christians on a bus in Egypt is just the latest assault on the religious minority group, which has been a target for deadly violence throughout its history.

Remarkably, though, a leading Coptic Christian bishop says that he has already forgiven the ISIS soldiers who slaughtered his fellow Copts. Bishop Angaelos, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the ...

Jo Coleman has joined our search for Divine Art and has been to see the icons inside the new Cathedral at the Coptic Orthodox Church Centre in Stevenage. An 'icon' is a religious picture used to ...

Egypt’s Coptic Christians picked a new leader Sunday, a process that involved a blindfolded boy choosing one of three names in a crystal chalice. Bishop Tawadros Theodorus II – the nation’s 118th ...