A heart-wrenching new film recounts the beheadings 10 years ago this week of 21 Coptic Christians at the hands of ISIS radicals. Yet the film, simply titled "The 21," also tells the poignant story ...

Faced with a mortal decision, the captives chose to die. Animated in a neo-Coptic style evocative of the long history of Orthodox art, The 21 pairs earthly realities with spiritual ones.

According to legend, it was St. Mark who introduced Christianity to Egypt, and it was here that Africa's first Christian church – the Coptic Church of Egypt – thrived. To learn more about ...