Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned on Sunday the passing of Metropolitan Elder and Acting Patriarch Pakhomious, who died at nearly 90 years old after a lifetime of devoted service to the church ...

The church—rebuilt after its destruction by ... of Shenouda in the political arena.” After my visit to Coptic Cairo, I drove 70 miles northwest to Wadi Natrun, the center of monastic life ...

The Coptic Church is a branch of Oriental Orthodoxy, and its seat has been in Cairo since the 12th century, with the Coptic ...

To learn more about Coptic Cairo's rich history, check out neighborhood attractions like the Coptic Museum and the ninth-century Hanging Church, which are housed within an ancient Babylonian fortress.

A fire ripped through a church in a densely populated neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Sunday as congregants worshipped, killing at least 41 and injuring 14, the Coptic Church said.

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

At least 41 people, 15 children among them, were killed Sunday at the Martyr Abu Sefein Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo's working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in the Giza area. There were also ...

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