Egypt's Copts, who make up most of the Muslim-majority country's Christian minority, have in the past accused the authorities of making only token gestures to protect them from such attacks ...

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on Nayrouz: “Today, Coptic Christians in Canada and ...

The Copts were (and remain) so devoted to Michael that they established 12 feasts in his honor, one per month, to be observed ...

It comes two days before Egypt's Christians celebrate their Christmas. About 10% of Egypt's population are Copts, and many say the state discriminates against them and does not offer them enough ...

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By Nada Rashwan, Euan Ward, Liam Stack and Yonette Joseph Islamist militants ambushed two buses carrying Copts from a remote desert monastery. At least seven were killed. By Declan Walsh and ...

It has been thirteen years since the 2011 Revolution in Egypt toppled Hosni Mubarak. He had been at that point the president ...

In a long dispute with Egyptian Copts, Ethiopian monks have occupied a rooftop monastery for more than 200 years to press their claim to a portion of the church. Photograph by Alessio Romenzi As ...

even groups of Muslims bravely standing up for persecuted Christians (such as the Copts in Egypt). Muslims are often the first targets and victims of the radicals, and even among those who share s ...

But not only Jews were colonized by invading Islamic armies Copts, Orthodox Christians, Hindus and Buddhist were also subjugated. Many Jewish, Christian, Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites that have ...

The whole area-the Monastery and its surroundings - is redolent of the Coptic Christian ethos So hallowed are its intimations that the Copts of Egypt named it the Second Bethlehem. It was here at the ...