Most of them are going to the tattoo parlour owned by the Razzouk family who has been tattooing from father to son for no less than 700 years. Sabrina Myre reports from Jerusalem's old city.

Five centuries ago, Wassim Razzouk's family moved from Egypt to Jerusalem for pilgrimage, staying to tattoo visitors to the city who came after them. The Razzouks are Coptic Christians ...

CAIRO — Tattoos have become commonplace in most of the Western world, with one in five American adults, for instance, supposedly sporting one. Yet for Egypt’s embattled Coptic Christian minori ...

During centuries of persecution, Coptic Christians found bold and enduring ways to show their dedication to Christ. Tattoos have become commonplace in modern American culture. According to a 2006 ...

My family originated from Egypt. They were Coptic Christians, and Copts have a tradition of having a tattoo of a small cross on their right wrist to identify themselves from others and to display ...

Christian pilgrimage tattoos date back to the early 7th century, to the spread of Islam into Egypt, which at the time was a mainly Coptic Christian society. After being conquered by Muslim armies ...

For her first 60 years, Ann Ronaldson never wanted a tattoo. But the accountant from Milton Keynes, England, changed her mind last week while visiting Jerusalem for the first time. Together with ...