Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with ...

Ancient Minoan cross from the Heraklion Museum of Crete. Credit: P.Vasiliadis CC-BY 3.0 The significance of the cross predates the Christian era, with its roots extending deep into ancient Greek ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Assistant Professor Candace Lukasik has published her first book “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of U.S. Empire” (NYU Press).

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

This neighborhood in southern Cairo is the oldest part of the city, with twisting alleyways and ancient churches that are several centuries older than the ornate mosques of Islamic Cairo.

Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with church services, processions, candles, incense, fasting and penances. Join ...

"In a small bright yellow room tucked inside al Refaai Mosque, lied a tomb in the shape of a Cathedral, and that's the message of my exhibition," explained renowned Egyptian photographer Sherif ...

Five hundred fortunate individuals from across the United States are now carrying a piece of the Holy Land with them as a free gift from an online Christian gift store. |PIC1|Inspired by the tough ...

It’s been 10 years since 21 Christian martyrs were killed by ISIS in Libya, and THE CHOSEN’s Jonathan Roumie recently spoke up about what Christians can learn from these men who died for their faith. ...

Eugenio Alliata's office in Jerusalem resembles any archaeology workshop that prefers fieldwork. On the overcrowded shelves, ...

Relatives of victims react in front of a Coptic church that was bombed earlier this year Egypt. (Reuters) Heavily armed Islamists in Egypt ambushed a youth pilgrimage to a monastery this morning, ...