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 ...

Four months ago, the first Coptic Catholic church in New Jersey and one of the few Coptic Catholic churches in the United States, Jesus the King Church, opened in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

81 x 108 cm. (31.9 x 42.5 in.) ...

According to legend, it was St. Mark who introduced Christianity to Egypt, and it was here that Africa's first Christian church – the Coptic Church of Egypt – thrived. To learn more about ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. "Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt 28:19.] Before receiving the ...

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

Immigration helped fuel the growth of America’s Orthodox churches more than a century ago. Now, it’s conversions from other ...

the film brings a new perspective to an event that stunned the global Church. Director Tod Polson, formerly a creative director at Cartoon Saloon, worked closely with the Coptic community and the ...

A defensive dome for the US – a country hundreds of times the size of Israel – would require massive scale, as well as space-based interceptors, and almost certainly be decades away.

Relatives of victims react in front of a Coptic church that was bombed earlier this year Egypt. (Reuters) Heavily armed Islamists in Egypt ambushed a youth pilgrimage to a monastery this morning, ...

Nashwa Gaber, deputy CEO for archaeological affairs at NMEC, noted that the exhibition, which runs until the end of January, features diverse artefacts that illustrate the wonders of Coptic art.