Tag: Copts

Christmas Mass was held in Alexandria Sunday, marking the Orthodox Christmas, following the Julian calendar, where the holy day falls on January 7. Despite the threat of terrorist attacks, with ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:45 P.M.) - An Egyptian military court sentenced 17 people to death on Thursday after they were found guilty for carrying out the church bombings in 2016 and ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:30 P.M.) - Police thwarted suicide attacker outside of Coptic Christian church in Qalyubiyah, a governorate north of Cairo on Saturday. The attacker reportedly blew himself up on a ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 P.M.) - Bishop Epiphanius of the Coptic Orthodox Church was found dead inside the Saint Macarius Monastery in the Wadi Natroun area on Sunday. According to local reports, ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:30 A.M.) - The remains of the 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians executed by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) will be returned to Egypt, Al-Youm Al-Sabe reported on Monday. ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 A.M.) - The Islamic State (ISIL) claimed on Wednesday that their terrorist organization carried out Tuesday's attack on the St. Catherine Monastery in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. No ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:00 A.M.) - Hundreds of people attended the funeral of the victims of an earlier bomb attack which left at least 27 worshippers dead, at St. George Coptic ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:55 P.M.) - The so-called "Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham" (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at the Coptic cathedral on Sunday that killed as many ...

The Egyptian branch of the ISIS group claimed responsibility for a shooting attack that killed a Coptic priest in the Sinai Peninsula on Thursday. The extremist group said a "squad" ...

An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced three Coptic Christian teenagers to five years in jail for contempt of Islam after they were seen in a video mocking Muslim prayers. A ...