The Coptic Catholic church has welcomed a new Egyptian law to facilitate the building of Christian places of worship. On Aug. 30 Egypt passed a law codifying the rights of Christians to build and ...

Pope Leo XIV spoke with Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II for the occasion of the Day of Coptic-Catholic Friendship and ...

Pope Francis, right, arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, with the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Tawadros II, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

In this file photo, Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, attend an ecumenical prayer service at St. Peter’s Church in Cairo April 28, 2017. (Credit ...

A massive fire at a Coptic Orthodox church in Egypt claimed the lives of 41 people on Sunday — a devastating blow for a Christian community long beset by persecution and hardship. Though there is no ...

VATICAN CITYVATICAN CITY — Pope Francis and the Coptic Orthodox pope, Tawadros II, delivered a joint blessing Wednesday from St. Peter’s Square in a significant ecumenical gesture to commemorate the ...

Coptic Catholic Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sedrak said rising social and economic troubles since the revolution are leading to the despair and emigration of the country's Christians and Muslims alike, ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — 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 ...