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 Coptic Orthodox Church was founded in the first century around 50 AD in Alexandria, Egypt by the Apostle Mark, making it one of the earliest Christian denominations. Mark was the first pope of the ...

The relics of 21 Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS in Libya will be venerated in St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday evening at an ecumenical prayer service marking their first official feast day in the ...

Pope Francis, right, arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, with the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Tawadros II, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

This weekend St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church will, once again, open its doors for a celebration of all things Coptic Orthodox through the Taste of Egypt Festival. Copts are the largest Christian sect ...

The Holy Father marked significant milestones throughout 2025, such as the canonization of contemporary saints — including ...

Church projects that had been halted in Egypt when the northern African nation was dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood are being resumed as Christians in the country begin to enjoy some measure of ...

Egyptian Coptic Catholics attended a prayer service for the late Pope Francis at the Holy Virgin Mary Coptic Catholic Cathedral on Tuesday in Cairo. Worshippers at the cathedral remembered Pope ...

This 2013 photo shows St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Abbassia, a central neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's Christians have been the target of Islamic extremists for years. By Shelby ...