CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – At the last Christmas service he presided over, Pope Shenouda III praised the unusual guests seated among the faithful at his Cairo cathedral: Leaders from the conservative Muslim ...

ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) -- A campaign of intimidation by Islamists left most Christians in this southern Egyptian province too afraid to participate in last week's referendum on an Islamist-drafted ...

Grief quickly transformed into anger on Sunday as a couple hundred Christians returned to the church in Alexandria that was bombed on New Year’s Day. During the morning Mass, women sobbed against one ...

Aug. 22 marked the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, a day that was created by the United Nations five years ago to highlight the plight of ...

CAIRO (AP) — Coptic Christian families have fled their homes in a town in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, fearing for their lives after receiving death threats from suspected Islamic militants, a local ...

CAIRO — Tonight, an Egyptian Christian mother will lie awake, worrying if her kidnapped daughter was merely forced to marry a radical Islamist and convert or if her fate was much worse. This Sunday, ...

In Minya, Christians make up an estimated 35 percent of the population of around 4 million, the highest percentage of any province in Egypt. In the 1990s, it and other parts of the south were the ...

CAIRO (AP) – An Egyptian criminal court convicted three Christians Saturday of killing a Muslim man, a judicial official and the state news agency said, in a dispute that that left nine people dead in ...

CAIRO, Dec 21 (Reuters) - The Arab Spring has increased pressure on Egypt's Coptic Christians, with attacks on churches and bloody clashes with Muslims and the military. Many foreign Christians feel ...

MINYA, Egypt -- "I left with only the black cassock that I'm wearing and my wife with her dress," sighed Father Samuel Aziz Abdou. He was forced to flee his church and home as they were torched and ...

(UPDATED) Bible Society director: ‘[Christians] are paying the price to dismantle the Muslim Brotherhood apparatus and live in peace.’ Editor's note: CT's Gleanings blog offers continued updates on ...