DAHSHOUR, Egypt (AP) — When the angry mob was rampaging through town, storming her home and those of other Christians, the 70-year-old woman hid in her cow pen, pushing a rock against the door. There ...

CAIRO (AP) – Millions of Egyptian Christians thronged churches across this mainly Muslim nation for Christmas Mass, held Monday amid unusually tight security but with congregations filled with hope ...

Egypt has a population of around 111 million people, of whom 90% are Sunni Muslim and 10% are Christian. Although they're 11 million strong, the Christian population faces immense persecution. Despite ...

CAIRO (AP) — Coptic Christian families have fled their homes in a town in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, fearing for their lives after receiving death threats from suspected Islamic militants, a local ...

CAIRO (AP) – An Egyptian criminal court convicted three Christians Saturday of killing a Muslim man, a judicial official and the state news agency said, in a dispute that that left nine people dead in ...

BIXBY - As violence against Egyptian Christians continues to rise in the wake of the Arab spring, Oklahoma Egyptian Christians met Wednesday to pray for peace in their native land. Incense and ...

Grief quickly transformed into anger on Sunday as a couple hundred Christians returned to the church in Alexandria that was bombed on New Year’s Day. During the morning Mass, women sobbed against one ...

Drenched in sweat and covered in ash, 24-year-old Miriam Nagi has spent the past eight days mopping soot inside St. George’s Church. She’s cleaning up after a fire raged there last week, turning a ...

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 ...