“Every stone has a story, but some whisper of miracles.” Two ancient Coptic-era churches and a mural depicting Jesus Christ healing the sick have been discovered by archaeologists in Egypt’s Kharga ...

A 2,000-year-old settlement was discovered in the Kharga Oasis in Egypt, a site first inhabited in the 3rd century BCE and reused during the early Coptic period between the 3rd and 7th centuries CE.

WADI NATRUN, Egypt — Christian monks living in the solitude of Egypt’s deserts have always faced the threat of attack from outside. In the early centuries, they built drawbridges and windowless towers ...

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, the largest in the Middle East, might not be a community one would associate with Jersey City. Due to an ongoing cycle of persecution and discrimination in the ...

CAIRO Sunday morning Mass was drawing to a close at the chapel next to St. Mark s Cathedral, the seat of Egypt s ancient Coptic Orthodox Church, when Magdy Ramzy said there suddenly was a shattering ...

Coptic Orthodox congregations in Houston have joined churches worldwide in canceling today’s Christmas services as a way to mourn the victims of a suicide bombing at a church in Egypt last week and to ...