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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Egypt's Coptic Church is one of the oldest in the world, with a cultural tradition dating back two millennia, during which time churches have been built and a variety of distinctive art forms have ...

The carved-wood front doors imported from Egypt are the first clue that St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church will tantalize the eyes once you walk in. The details not only represent art and craftsmanship, ...

Syracuse, NY - The tiny congregation of St. Mary & St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Church worships in a former Russian church, and in 16 years had never had a priest to call its own, until now. The Coptic ...

Tensions between Coptic monks who dwell in remote monasteries in Egypt and the Egyptian military flared this week as the nation struggles to find its way forward after President Mubarak’s resignation.

The head of the Coptic Church is scheduled to offer the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the Catholic Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on May 14. According to Father Martin Browne, an official at ...

Oct. 18—Along with Halloween fun, October is proving to be a good month for Bakersfield to learn more about different churches and cultures. After last week's Bakersfield Greek Food Festival, ...

Construction is advancing on a permanent home for Saint Timothy and Saint Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Church in Green Valley. The Arlington-based church — which goes by the abbreviated STSA Church — ...