A new song highlights a growing interest outside the Egyptian church in reviving an ancient language of the Christian world. The darkened New York church was packed with almost 1,000 congregants ...

The heresy-fighting bishop Irenaeus of Lyon, France, mentioned the Gospel of Judas about 180 AD, linking the writing to a Gnostic sect. Some two centuries later, Epiphanius, bishop of Cyprus, ...

The French philologist announced his success on 27 September 1822, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization.

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Egyptian Christians have developed a rich culture since Saint Mark brought the new faith to Egypt in Roman times. Today, Egypt is 90 percent Muslim, but the Copts are a powerful minority, says Father ...

Five years ago, on a Libyan beach, ISIS militants beheaded 21 orange-clad Christian men in a meticulously choreographed propaganda video. Twenty of them were Coptic Christians originally from Egypt, ...

BOSTON (AP) - A Harvard University professor on Tuesday unveiled a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife.

The smell of freshly made basbousa filled the air as Umm Kulthum’s music boomed over hundreds of people chatting in Arabic and English. At Saint Antonius Coptic Orthodox Church’s King Tut Festival in ...

PLEASANTON — St. Mary and St. John Coptic Orthodox Church has come a long way since it started in 2007 in rented rooms in San Ramon. Today, the church, now housed on Mirador Drive in Pleasanton at ...