The Massacre of the Innocents is a biblical event in which King Herod orders the execution of all male children in Bethlehem.

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 ...

The Coptic year is the extension of the ancient Egyptian civil year, retaining its subdivision into the three seasons, four months each. The three seasons are commemorated by special prayers in the ...

Christmas season is here. Global celebrations and religious services are taking place, amidst family reunions. This narrative draws your attention to the Christians caught up in the Gaza War. These ...

Egypt’s five churches signed the final draft of the Personal Status Law for Egypt’s Christians. The draft, signed on 9 ...

And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train ... the Ethiopian church remained connected to the Coptic Church until the mid-20th century. Christianity spread South from the North of Egypt ...

Mary of Egypt is highly venerated as a Desert Mother in the Orthodox Churches. April 1 is her feat day for the Greek Orthodox ...

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 ...

Scenes from the life of Christ—including his infancy, triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and Last Supper—adorn a small Coptic Orthodox chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Several ...

BELLS RINGING ] WITH THE 4th-CENTURY CONSTRUCTION OF THIS NEW CHURCH, JERUSALEM QUICKLY BECAME A ... SPOKE THE LANGUAGES OF THEIR HOMELANDS -- COPTIC, ARABIC, ARMENIAN, LATIN, AND OTHER LANGUAGES.

In the future, even winning the former “Blue Wall” states won’t be enough for the party’s presidential nominees.