Western news reports say masked gunmen in Libya have kidnapped 20 Egyptian Coptic Christian workers in recent days, including 13 people abducted from a residential compound in the coastal city of ...

CAIRO – A priest and a witness say masked gunmen in central Libya have kidnapped 20 Coptic Christians from Egypt. Witness Hanna Aziz told The Associated Press that the gunmen in the Libyan city ...

After the bodies of 20 Coptic Christians killed by the Islamic State in Libya were returned to Egypt, the head of the Coptic church in Great Britain said their deaths “provided an opportunity ...

Masked gunmen in central Libya kidnapped 13 Coptic Christians on Saturday after seven were abducted days earlier, said a witness and a priest, in a new wave of assaults against Egypt's Christians ...

Coptic Christians in Egypt, the largest contingent of Christians in the country, are under severe attack — so much so that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom announced just ...

Hundreds of Coptic monasteries once flourished in the deserts of Egypt, but today roughly 20 remain, as well as seven convents, operated by more than 1,000 Coptic monks and about 600 nuns.

Coptic Christians held funeral service of some of the victims of a bus attack, at Abu Garnous Cathedral in Minya, Egypt, Friday, May 26, 2017.

CAIRO — Islamist mobs have torched schools and businesses owned by Christians, looted churches and even paraded captive nuns through the streets of a city south of Cairo in a display of rage ...

Egypt's Coptic Christians a Powerful Force Egyptian Christians have developed a rich culture since Saint Mark brought the new faith to Egypt in Roman times. Today, Egypt is 90 percent Muslim, but ...

NASHVILLE — More than 2,000 Coptic Christians poured into St. Pishoy Coptic Orthodox Church facilities in Antioch Friday night for a chance to see the pope. ... Yousief, 20, grew up in Franklin ...

Coptic Christian leaders in the United States distanced themselves from an anti-Muslim film that has sparked protests in more than 20 countries, and denounced the Copts who reportedly produced and ...

Hundreds of Coptic monasteries once flourished in the deserts of Egypt, but today roughly 20 remain, as well as seven convents, operated by more than 1,000 Coptic monks and about 600 nuns.