A gun attack that killed at least 26 Coptic Christians on a bus in Egypt is just the latest assault on the religious minority group, which has been a target for deadly violence throughout its history.

(AP) Egypt’s pope urged his congregants to be joyful and not be afraid in his Mass for Coptic Christmas, trying to reassure a community feeling anxious about the rise of Islamists to power here. Pope ...

Coptic Orthodox congregations in Houston have joined churches worldwide in canceling today’s Christmas services as a way to mourn the victims of a suicide bombing at a church in Egypt last week and to ...

AL-OUR, Egypt (Reuters) - When Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi dispatched fighter jets this year against Islamic State targets in Libya in retaliation for the beheading of 21 Copts, he sent a ...

CAIRO, May 30 (Reuters) - An Egyptian court has ruled that two Coptic men have the right to remarry, contradicting the church's position and undermining its efforts to maintain its authority over the ...

Egypt's Health Ministry spokesman says at least 10 people, including eight Coptic Christians, have been killed in a shootout outside a south Cairo church. Khaled Megahed says Friday's attack took ...

(The name Copt derives from the Arabic word Qubt, meaning Egyptian.) Copts now make up between 7 percent and 10 percent of the country’s population, or 7 million to 11 million people, and are an ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s minority Christians were celebrating their first Christmas after the election of an Islamist president and a new pope — and following adoption of a constitution many argue has an ...

An anthropologist of religion shows how Coptic Christians navigate two competing realities: the narrative of Christian ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Copts, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, marked a solemn Easter this year, a week after suicide bombers struck churches in two cities, killing dozens of ...