Coptic artist Adel Nassif has been retelling Egypt's Christian history in beautiful icons in an effort to push back against what he describes as a trend towards low-quality mass production. “The time ...

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 ...

History is rife with instances in which art was used to deliver a specific message or set of beliefs; one of the most fascinating examples is Coptic iconography – an art form that first came to life ...

CLINTON - You may have heard of a pop-up restaurant. The Museum of Russian Icons is now showing a pop-up exhibit of Ethiopian and Coptic icons and related materials. "From the Vault: Icons of Ethiopia ...

A Coptic icon artist honors the 21 Christian martyrs murdered by ISIS in Libya. When the Coptic Church announced this weekend that their 21 brothers killed by the Islamic State in Libya had been ...

On Wednesday, January 29th, 2025, the sacred walls of Al-Aour’s Martyrs Church in Minya, Egypt, held more than just prayers. In the morning, families gathered in reverent anticipation for a screening ...

CAIRO, EGYPT—Customs officials seized three ancient Coptic Christian icons at the Cairo airport. The parcel was headed to the United States, but the intercepted icons were rerouted to the Ministry of ...

AN exhibition of religious icons is being held. Russian icons by Tatiana Kolibaba and Coptic icons by Stephen Rene - both internationally-renowned artists -are on show at Waddington Street United ...

Documents the artistic continuities between ancient Ethiopian Orthodox traditions and modern Ethiopian painters -- Skunder Boghossian, Gebre Kristos Desta, Wosene Kosrof, Falaka Armide, Tesfaye ...

Coptic artist Adel Nassif has been retelling Egypt's Christian history in beautiful icons in an effort to push back against what he describes as a trend towards low-quality mass production. “The time ...

Customs officers at Cairo airport have seized three ancient Coptic icons that someone attempted to smuggle to the United States. Customs chief Mohamed al-Shahat said that personnel was suspicious of a ...