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 at ...

A massive fire at a Coptic Orthodox church in Egypt claimed the lives of 41 people on Sunday — a devastating blow for a Christian community long beset by persecution and hardship. Though there is no ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Copts, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, marked a solemn Easter this year, a week after suicide bombers struck churches in two cities, killing dozens of ...

Coptic Orthodox Church spokesman, Father Moussa Ibrahim, stated that the pope will preside over the week’s main services, including Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Mass at St Mark’s ...