Gawdat Gabra: The Copts are proud of the tradition of Eusebius in the 4th century, that it is Mark the Evangelist, he was the first preacher of Christianity in Egypt. He came to Alexandria in the ...

"Copts abroad receive a civil divorce, simply because they have this luxury of living abroad," Kamal commented, stating that this ridiculous condition is like getting a train going to another ...

Those Copts, who might boycott voting, voted in the first round for Hamdeen Sabbahi. The Copts have been accused of betraying the revolution because many of them voted for Shafiq in the first round.

The Copts have their own patriarch, Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, who took office in 2012 after having his name picked from a glass chalice by a blindfolded boy.

Egyptian Copts, numbering about nine million, form the region’s largest Christian population and largest non-Muslim population of any kind. If Islamist extremists are allowed to proceed with the ...

Copts say the women were detained by the church for their safekeeping. But Islamists say the women are being held against their will for trying to convert to Islam.

Egyptian Copts have paid the heftiest price after the ousting of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) President Morsy, and the breaking up of the two MB sit-ins in Cairo by security forces. According to church ...

Anba Moussa concedes that under the presidency of Mubarak Copts in general paid a high price for their political naiveté. The late president Anwar Sadat, Archbishop Moussa believes, was behind the ...

The Copts, who make up between 10 and 15 percent of Egypt’s population, and who were worshiping Jesus Christ in Egypt before the Islamic invasion, have been persecuted for a very long time, even ...

Copts celebrate Christmas on January 7. It is a festive, yet mournful time, as terror attacks against them increase during their holiday season. 1A priest leads the mass in a church in Minya, Egypt.

Copts are not allowed to sell their livestock on the market but have to sell it to Muslims in the village at a fraction of their fair price, and hire agricultural machinery only from village Muslims ...

NEW YORK — A would-be investigation into religious phenomena that persists long after it’s clear the project won’t yield fruit, Namir Abdel Messeeh‘s The Virgin, The Copts and Me will ...