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

Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with ...

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 four-hour long ceremony at St Mark's Cathedral was looked on by Coptic Orthodox clergy from around ... in which he pledged to work for the good of Egypt, Muslims and Christians alike. He succeeds ...

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 ...

The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, condemned the beheadings. "They were killed simply for the fact that they were Christians," he said at the Vatican. Egypt's Coptic Christian 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 ...

A convalescing Pope Francis has greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a ...