Mark who introduced Christianity to Egypt, and it was here that one of the world's first Christian churches – the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church – thrived. To learn more about Coptic Cairo's ...

Little-known group of Coptic-Christians calls for Copts to be subject to Islamic Law – which, unlike church law, allows for divorce – under Egypt's new constitution The dispute between Coptic ...

Mark the evangelist. This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their ...

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The Egyptian president also approved the building of a new Coptic Orthodox church in new Cairo, according to the official gazette. The long-awaited law, the 13 articles of which have been ...

On Friday (13 February), IS released pictures of the Egyptians, saying they had been kidnapped to avenge the fate of Muslim women "tortured and murdered by the Coptic church of Egypt". Egypt's ...

Originally constructed in 1242, the church was remodeled and restored several times, perhaps most famously between 1690 and 1693 when the interiors were decorated with fresco paintings of scenes ...