The Coptic Orthodox Church has announced that the 21 Egyptian Christians murdered by the Islamic State in Libya will be commemorated in its Church calendar as martyrs and saints. Coptic Orthodox Pope ...

In 2015, the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS shocked the world. Yet, it sparked a powerful response that was at odds with the extremists’ intent: the victims’ families chose forgiveness.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Soldiers of the Islamic State captured 21 Christian crusaders," the militant ... reports on the fates of two groups of Egyptian Coptic Christians reportedly abducted in recent weeks.

The 21,' crafted in the style of Coptic iconography, is a film honoring the 21 Coptic men murdered by ISIS in 2015.

CAIRO (— An attack Friday on Egypt’s Coptic Christians in which gunmen opened fire outside a church and at a store in the south Cairo suburb of Helwan, killing at least eight Copts and a ...

In 2016, after Copts in the village of Manshiet El-Naghamish applied to build a church, locals organized and attacked the Christians. Egyptians looted and burned Coptic properties and assaulted Copts.

Seven Coptic Christians were killed in an attack on two buses near a monastery in Minya on Friday. The Islamic State (IS) group has said it carried out the attack. It was the latest in a series of ...

Hundreds of people gathered in Minya for the funerals of six Coptic Christians killed by millitants Coptic Christians have gathered in Egypt to take part in the funerals of a group of pilgrims ...