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 ...

An architect's rendering shows the St. George and St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church complex planned for the intersection of Sip Avenue and Route 440 in Jersey City. Foundations are laid for the ...

“To the Coptic Christian community living throughout the United States,” it read, “I deeply admire your Steadfast Faith in God, Perseverance through Centuries of Persecution and Love for ...

On Feb. 15, 2015, ISIS militants brutally executed 21 Coptic Christian prisoners on a beach in Libya. Now, on the 10th anniversary of their martyrdom, a short animated film called “The 21” is ...

Subsequent Islamic rule restored the Coptic patriarch and provided some religious toleration. But it also legally established Christians as second-class citizens, known as dhimmis. The number of ...

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 ...

The non-Catholic Christians were 21 men who had previously been canonized in the Coptic Church (20 of them had been Egyptian and one Ghanian), and the religious leader was the Coptic pope — His ...