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 of ...

On Global Coptic Day, we celebrate the enduring faith, time-honored traditions, and remarkable resilience of the Coptic Orthodox Church. More than 2,000 years ago, the Holy Family fled to Egypt and ...

We hoped to welcome everyone from our community, from all different nations, from all different people, to come to our church and recognize us as a community." ...

After one trip into Libya as a migrant worker, Tawadros Youssef Tawadros reported that he had been warned that his Christian name — "Theodore," in English — might anger Muslim radicals. His widow, ...

Somewhere between a documentary and a comedic fable, Namir Abdel Messeeh’s first feature film is a welcome diversion from the current climate of strife and sectarian violence in the Middle East. A ...

A relative of one of the Egyptian Copts killed in Libya mourns at a church before attending a Mass in Al-Our village, in Minya governorate, south of Cairo, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Reuters Coptic ...

June 1 marks Global Coptic Day, a worldwide celebration of the rich history and enduring faith of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The day commemorates the Holy Family’s biblical journey to Egypt, where ...

St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church invited the Burr Ridge community this weekend for a look at its culture and faith, a sampling of some authentic Egyptian food and even camel rides at the 15th annual ...

Community filmmaker Tom Gadelrab shares a weekend in his Egyptian Christian Coptic faith. In this community filmmaker video from Making Buffalo Home, Tom Gadelrab from Lockport, NY talks about how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was no escape from the dust in Cairo. That was especially true in Manshiyat Nasser, known to visitors as Cairo’s “Garbage ...

The Coptic Christian community of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is under siege from a growing number of militant Islamists, including ISIS members, who target them for death because of their faith. The ...