Coptic Lives, a Core Curriculum course, offers students a gateway into what it would be like to live in historical Coptic society. Investigating history through archeological methods, students ...

Paul Rowe has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for his research. Among the Christians of the Middle East, the largest number – some eight million or ...

This neighborhood in southern Cairo is the oldest part of the city, with twisting alleyways and ancient churches that are several centuries older than the ornate mosques of Islamic Cairo. According to ...

In an unusual act, Pope Francis has included 21 non-Catholic Christians in the Roman Martyrology — an official list of martyrs, saints and blesseds. What’s more, he did so with the consent of a ...

The following is a script from "The Copts" which aired on Dec. 15, 2013. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Harry Radliffe, producer. Think of Egypt and the first thing that comes to mind is not ...

The head of the Coptic Church is in the holy city for the funeral of Archbishop Anba Abraham, who died two days ago. In 1980, Shenouda III forbade the Orthodox Copts from traveling to Jerusalem until ...

February 2019 marks the fourth anniversary of the murder of the 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians by Daesh in Libya. The event might not be memorable for some. However, for those who saw it, it is ...

A gun attack that killed at least 26 Coptic Christians on a bus in Egypt is just the latest assault on the religious minority group, which has been a target for deadly violence throughout its history.

A new song highlights a growing interest outside the Egyptian church in reviving an ancient language of the Christian world. The darkened New York church was packed with almost 1,000 congregants ...

When Mary, a 29-year-old Coptic Christian from Minya, Egypt, landed seven months ago at Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia, many thoughts were swirling in her head. How would she fare in the United ...

A church in the middle of Cairo is bombed. A 70-year-old woman is stripped naked and paraded through a southern Egyptian village. Military vehicles run over Coptic protesters, dismembering and ...

TORONTO — On the corner of Glendinning Avenue in Scarborough, Ontario — removed from the bright lights and bustling city life of downtown Toronto — lies an unimposing church of deep significance to ...