While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

President Donald Trump recently joined the Coptic Orthodox Christian community in observing Global Coptic Day — a celebration ...

It was not immediately known if children were among them. Mousa Ibrahim, a spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, told the AP that 5-year-old triplets, their mother, grandmother and an aunt wer ...

The Coptic Orthodox Church has confirmed that its decision last week to suspend dialogue with the Catholic Church was due to Rome’s “change of position” on homosexuality. In a video released ...

At least 41 people died from smoke inhalation and a stampede when a fire swept through a Coptic Orthodox church on Sunday. The church said a generator started the blaze. By Jane Arraf and Nada ...

The inscription of the Coptic Orthodox martyrs in the Catholic liturgical calendar, Francis said, "is a sign of the spiritual communion that unites our two churches." The Coptic Orthodox Church is ...

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church announced Saturday that all its churches across the country rang bells at 12pm Cairo local time in solidarity with the victims of the North Sinai mosque attack ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who heads the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), met with the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church to discuss a rift caused by the recent Vatican ...

The head of the Coptic Church is scheduled to offer the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the Catholic Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on May 14. According to Father Martin Browne, an official ...