Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church is working to unify the date of Easter celebrations across all Christian denominations.

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers and artisans as much as among nuns and monks. They were getting crosses, ...

Pope Francis has praised the courageous witness of the 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians killed by ISIS in 2015, calling them “saints of all Christians.” Pope Francis has praised the courageous witness of ...

The Pope has several titles ... This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy ...

Pope Francis and the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, Pope Tawadros II, held a historic meeting at the Vatican on Friday. The visit took place to strengthen the bonds of friendship between ...

Azar Ajaj, president of Nazareth Evangelical Theological Seminary, cites the case of a Coptic Christian in Libya who fled for his ... saying that they had sacrificed to Caesar and the gods. Pope ...

This correlates with March or April in the Gregorian calendar (named after Pope Gregory XIII), which is what we use today. Other early Christians ... Armenian, Coptic Egyptian and Ethiopian ...

The Oscar-winner talks about playing an unlikely action movie hero – an introverted CIA code expert who takes matters into his own hands on a mission of revenge – in "The Amateur." ...