The structure, history and practices of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the main Christian Church in Egypt and one of the oldest churches outside the Holy Land. The Coptic Orthodox Church is the main ...

Coptic Christians made global headlines in April after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria claimed responsibility for bombing two Egyptian churches, killing about 50 people and injuring more than 100.

The message delivered during Sunday's morning service at the Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mark in Jersey City was all too familiar: Pray for all of those killed by bombings at their churches in ...

The patriarch of Egypt’s 10 million Coptic Orthodox Christians said his community has been squeezed by decades of government regulations on the number and size of churches. In Sunday’s blaze ...

Archaeologists Unearth Three Ancient Churches in Egypt That Reveal Coptic Graffiti Scribbled by Monks on the Walls. In a land where the echoes of pharaohs still haunt the ruins, a different kind ...

And on Palm Sunday in 2017, two Islamic State suicide bombings at Coptic churches in Egypt claimed the lives of 47 people. In Nov. 2018, ...

Four months ago, the first Coptic Catholic church in New Jersey and one of the few Coptic Catholic churches in the United States, Jesus the King Church, opened in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.The ...

Rome Newsroom, Apr 21, 2023 / 09:25 am. 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.

St. Louis, Mo., Aug 15, 2022 / 14:38 pm. A massive fire at a Coptic Orthodox church in Egypt claimed the lives of 41 people on Sunday — a devastating blow for a Christian community long beset by ...