In a message sent Sunday to the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Francis said advances toward reconciliation are strengthened by the martyrs and that Christians must unite to confront shared ...

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 persecution and hardship. Though there is no ...

CAIRO — Pope Francis closed his first day in Egypt with a visit to Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawardos II, telling him their two Churches are bonded by the blood of their martyrs and are called to ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday sent a message to Tawadros II to mark the "day of friendship" between Catholics and the Coptic Orthodox, acknowledging their common commitment to being witnesses of holiness ...

Many churches are quieter in the daytime during the summer. St. Mina’s Coptic Orthodox Church on Route 34 in Holmdel, however, is a beehive of activity. I arrived on the first day of the six-week ...

The suicide bombings of two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday this year hit home in the Twin Cities, where hundreds of congregates fill the pews for services at two area churches to ...

Catholic clergy from Egypt have warned that ties with Orthodox and Islamic leaders are being derailed by a Vatican decision to allow the blessing of same-sex couples, after the country's influential ...

Abounah Abraam Georgy is seen in the smaller church at St. Mina's, a campus that includes, among other things, a bread-making facility for the parish's Communion. St. Mina's Coptic Orthodox Church in ...