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 ...

A British human-rights campaigner on Tuesday commemorated the seventh anniversary of the martyrdom of 21 men, known as the Coptic martyrs, by the Islamic State. On Feb. 15, 2015, the Islamic State ...

The Vatican is formally recognizing 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by Islamic militants in Libya as martyrs with their own feast day, in a significant new ecumenical gesture aimed at ...

Pope Francis has praised the courageous witness of the 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians killed by ISIS in 2015, calling them "saints of all Christians." In a video message for the "Day of Contemporary ...

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 ...

As a little boy in Sunday school, Bassem Al-Janoubie was fascinated by the illustrated stories about the martyrs of Egypt’s Coptic Church. "Even more than cartoon comic books, the dramatic events and ...

In this May 26, 2017 file photo, Coptic Christians shout slogans after the funeral service of some of the victims of a bus attack, at Abu Garnous Cathedral in Minya, Egypt. (Credit: Amr Nabil/AP.) ...

German novelist Mosebach (What Was Before) offers a consuming work on the history and contemporary life of Coptic Christians. After watching a video of the 2015 beheading of 21 Coptic men in Libya by ...

A writer goes in search of the young Coptic Christian men executed on film by ISIS. Martin Mosebach’s new book, The 21, tells the story of 21 Coptic Christians martyred by Muslim extremists on a ...

Egyptian Americans from Westchester County's Coptic community observed Easter Saturday night like many Christians: first darkness, then light. Worshipers at Virgin Mary and Saint Demiana Coptic ...