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 ...

Pope Francis and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II pose for a photo with Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and the delegation that accompanied Pope Tawadros to ...

Pope Francis with Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II in Cairo April 28 (Credit: CNS/Paul Haring.) Listen ROME – This week there will again be “two popes” at the Vatican when Francis meets his Coptic ...

Pope Francis and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II share a moment of prayer in the Redemptoris Mater chapel of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on May 11, 2023. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – In ...

Two popes sat side by side before a crowd of rain-soaked pilgrims in St. Peter's Square May 10. Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, was at the Vatican to mark the 50th ...

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 21 men were beheaded by ISIS on a beach in Libya on Feb. 15, 2015; the Pope received a relic of the martyrs’ blood as a gift from the Coptic Orthodox Church. Pope Francis receives relics of the ...

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 ...

The Vatican will likely designate Feb. 15 as their feast day, the same day the Coptic Orthodox Church honors them, officials said. Tawadros was at the Vatican to commemorate the 50th anniversary of ...

The congregants who filed into St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in South St. Paul on Tuesday morning greeted Fathers Youannes Tawfik and Jacob Zaki in the same reverent way: a kiss of the black cross, ...