For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

When Xenia Nikolskaya first went to Egypt in 2006, she thought she knew what she was looking for. Born and raised in the ...

They were getting crosses, images of the Virgin Mary ... These days, some churches in the Middle East, such as some Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, incorporate the practice of getting a tattoo ...

Eugenio Alliata's office in Jerusalem resembles any archaeology workshop that prefers fieldwork. On the overcrowded shelves, ...

COMMENTARY: This Easter, let us recall the 30 Ethiopian Orthodox martyrs and the tenuous, painful and yet real progress made ...

Today, Islam is practiced by the majority of Egypt's inhabitants, while a minority are Christian, many being part of the ...

“Jazz has no place in the church choir loft,” say conservative Christian musicians, reserving their praise for melodic patterns basically unchanged in hundreds of years. “It speaks the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Assistant Professor Candace Lukasik has published her first book “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of U.S. Empire” (NYU Press).

Egyptian forces have struck “terrorist training camps” in retaliation for the attack on Coptic Christians, President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said today. State media reported six strikes hit the town of ...

Thirteen Coptic Christians believed to have been captured by Islamic militants have been freed in Libya. Witnesses said the gunmen abducted the Copts on Saturday night, separating the Muslims from ...

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"Our demonstration is a stepping stone towards creating very large aperture, lightweight flat lenses with the capability of capturing full-color images for use in air- and space-based telescopes ...