VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis has denounced the slaying by the Islamic State of Egyptian Copts in Libya, saying they were "assassinated just for being Christian." Francis spoke off-the-cuff Monday ...

MAR GIRGIS MONASTERY, Egypt – There was no mention of churches torched or Christians killed, but the prayer neatly written on a tiny piece of paper and placed atop an icon of St. George in the chapel ...

Reporting from Cairo — The New Year’s Day bombing of an Alexandria church that left 25 Christians dead and scores more injured has unleashed a wave of anger among Egypt’s minority Copts directed at ...

The anger here: Protesting Egypt's abuse of its ancient Christian communities outside the UN headquarters in New York last week. Getty It’s shaping up to be a bad Christmas for one of the oldest ...

(AINA) -- In less than two weeks, Muslim mobs carried out collective punishment on Copts in three villages stretching from Upper Egypt to the Nile Delta. These attacks included assaults, torching, and ...

CHATENAY-MALABRY, France – Christian Copts in Europe are under tougher new police protection following Internet threats against their European places of worship, even as some prepare special services ...

Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder Audio By Carbonatix Last week, I attended the Coptic solidarity conference in Washington, D.C. The title of the two-day long ...

(AINA) -- Christian Copts staged a massive demonstration on Monday, February 28, against the Governor of Minya Ahmed Dia-el-Din, calling for his resignation. The demonstration was prompted by the ...

The Middle East has turned hostile to Christians and other religious minorities. The Iraqi Christian community has been devastated. Syria’s civil war loosed the murderous Islamic State on Christians ...

On the morning of May 26, Mohsen Morkous, a 60-year-old Egyptian-American Christian from the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park, was traveling with his two sons, a grandson, and dozens of others to a ...

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Rioting chills Muslim-Christian relations as new parliament is elected. Copts will long remember Friday, October 21, as a night of terror, flame, and violence in Alexandria. Late that evening, ...