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

Carolyn Ramzy is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at Carleton University. She looks at Egyptian Coptic Christian ...

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

What was left of the hymn, archeologists found 100 years ago in ancient Egyptian ruins on a scrap of tattered papyrus, long ...

I think that no Egyptian intellectuals in the early 20th century wanted to destroy their culture and values. However, many of ...

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 ...

Protestant Christians do not accept these Writings ... the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also recognize these Books as inspired ...

Today there exists in Egypt the Coptic rite which is Orthodox and the Coptic rite that ... They trace their Christian lineage to St. Thomas the Apostle who traveled to South India and founded ...

Christians around the world will celebrate on the same day this year, a relative rarity. Pope Francis would like to make it ...

A Texas Green Orthodox church is embarking on the final phase of a multimillion-dollar, yearslong expansion project amid ...

This special deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican” unravels what made the Council of Nicaea groundbreaking 1,700 years ...

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, ...