Working from his studio on MacCurtain Street, Rob Sexton is combining tattooing with traditional wood carving. After learning from the Razuk family of Jerusalem, Coptic Christian tattooists tracing ...

The Egyptian Festival at St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church is concluding its second and final day on Saturday, offering a ...

Dr. Schroeder co-founded and is a Principal Investigator of the interdisciplinary online research platform Coptic Scriptorium, which produces digital editions, natural language processing tools, and ...

providing religious tattooing services to customers from Coptic Christian, Armenian, and other communities. Perhaps more importantly, knowledge of these tattoos discloses how expressive and ...

As explained by @kuroxkura, in the 13th century, Coptics from the Coptic Orthodox Church (the largest Christian community in the Middle East) used to tattoo the cross on their forehead as a ...

Jesus the King in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, is the state’s first Coptic Catholic church. The Coptic Catholic community celebrates Mass on Sept. 21, 2024, as Jesus the King parish in Perth Amboy ...

However, it does not mean that tattoos came back at that time. They had never left. These days, some churches in the Middle East, such as some Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, incorporate ...

This is a photo from the Facebook page of the three Egyptian Coptic monks of the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of South Africa who were brutally murdered March 12, 2024. According to a March 13 ...

Archbishop Angaelos, the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London, has revealed the reason why he decided to get a cross tattooed on his arm. He's been speaking at an event to mark Contemporary Martyrs ...

the so-called Western values espoused by society (liberal and fiercely individualistic). For Coptic Egyptians specifically, the Coptic Orthodox Church presents one possible method of connecting with ...

The Razzouk family in the Old City of Jerusalem has been doing Christian-themed tattoos going back to the 1300s. Today, tattoo artist Wassim Razzouk and his sons carry on a Coptic Christian tradition ...