A team of archaeologists unearthed a 1,600-year-old Christian church in Egypt, along with astonishing human remains. The excavation was led by David Ratzan, a scholar of ancient civilizations at ...

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The Copts represent a living link to the region’s ancient history and its religious diversity, which is now under systematic threat.

[CAIRO] A year after Hamas’s October 2023 assault on Israel, Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Christians remain divided over how to ...

they boarded a sailing-boat which carried them up the Nile towards southern Egypt. The historic church built upon the spot from which they embarked, also dedicated to the Virgin, is further identified ...

The small, but vibrant, community of Greeks, with roots deep in history, remains in the Egyptian capital of Cairo to this day.

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A policeman has been killed trying to defuse a bomb outside a Coptic Christian church in Egypt, security officials say. Mustafa Abid was reportedly a specialist in mine clearance. The explosion ...

The event, presided over by Rev. Andrea Zaki, head of the Evangelical community in Egypt, was held at the Kasr El Dobara Evangelical Church and was attended by a host of prominent public figures. ...

According to legend, it was St. Mark who introduced Christianity to Egypt, and it was here that Africa's first Christian church – the Coptic Church of Egypt – thrived. To learn more about ...