Editor’s Note: Monique El-Faizy is a freelance journalist living in Paris. She has written extensively on the Coptic community. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. Once again, a holy ...

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015 file photo, Pope Tawadros II, the 118th pope of the Coptic Church of Egypt, leads a mass for the Egyptian Christians who were killed in Libya, at St. Mark's ...

Egypt's 20 million Coptic Christians face discrimination and occasional violence as experts say the state fails to address anti-Christian fanaticism seriously.

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic from ...

Egypt’s Christian minority has been present throughout the country for centuries, with many tracing their roots to original ancient inhabitants of the land. Now they are the target of a stepped-up ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — St. Mary & St. Moses Coptic Orthodox Church in North Tonawanda will be hosting its annual Egyptian ...

In this May 26, 2017 file photo, Coptic Christians shout slogans after the funeral service of some of the victims of a bus attack, at Abu Garnous Cathedral in Minya, Egypt. (Credit: Amr Nabil/AP.) ...

The Taste of Egypt Festival is Sept. 12-13 at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, 15 W 455 79th St. in Burr Ridge.