And the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the 20-member panel of generals ... “I have started to calm down.” The Coptic branch of Christianity dates to the first century A.D. when, scholars ...

Five years ago, on a Libyan beach, ISIS militants beheaded 21 orange-clad Christian men in a meticulously choreographed propaganda video. Twenty of them were Coptic Christians originally from ...

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In 2016, after Copts in the village of Manshiet El-Naghamish applied to build a church, locals organized and attacked the Christians. Egyptians looted and burned Coptic properties and assaulted Copts.

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

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).