Dozens of people have been killed in two separate explosions at Coptic Christian churches in Egypt. The first blast happened during a service to mark Palm Sunday in the city of Tanta, which is north ...

CAIRO -- Under pressure from fundamentalist forms of Islam and bursts of sectarian violence, the most populous Christian community in the Middle East is seeking safety by turning inward, cutting ...

Egypt’s Minister of Labour, Mohamed Gobran, announced a new decree on Tuesday, 30 December, that sets out the religious ...

CAIRO (AP) — They trace their founding to the voyage to Alexandria of St. Mark, the apostle of Jesus and New Testament author. Just a decade or two after the original Easter, which Christians ...

Egypt’s Catholic and Evangelical churches voiced concerns on Saturday over a recent government decision regulating Christian ...

You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. In Cairo today, several thousand Christians paraded through the streets. They gathered to mark the first anniversary of a similar march, one ...

Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday for the funeral of seven people killed when unknown gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt's Minya governorate, Egyptian state-run media ...

Several hundred of the area’s Coptic Christians yesterday called on the American government to withhold funding from Egypt until President Mubarak agrees to make a serious effort to protect the rights ...

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 ...

CAIRO (AP) — A couple hundred Christian protesters clashed with police in southern Egypt after holding a demonstration on Tuesday in front of a police station demanding authorities locate an abducted ...

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly visited the Papal Cathedral in Abbassia, Cairo, on Sunday to extend Christmas greetings to ...

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 ...