In time, he initiated far-reaching reforms within Coptic Orthodoxy. Coptic leaders in those days were preoccupied with maintaining tradition within churches and monasteries.

Coptic Orthodoxy is one of the most ancient forms of Christianity. Founded around A.D. 43 in Egypt, the faith is believed to have been founded by St. Mark the Apostle, ...

Unlike most Coptic congregations, whose liturgy is largely, if not entirely, in Arabic and Copt (the ancient language of Egypt), STSA worships in English. The second is the worship itself.

The Coptic Orthodox Church was founded by St. Mark in the years following the death of Jesus Christ and broke free from the Roman Catholic Church about 400 years later, according to the church's ...

The end of two decades of tension between the Coptic Orthodoxy and the Ethiopian Orthodox churches: ““You have made history”. This is how a Coptic Metropolitan described the reconciliation brought ...

Coptic Orthodoxy is a monophysite Church, which means its dogma suggests Jesus Christ's nature is simultaneously divine and human. The Church has about 400 communities at present and most of ...

As in many Coptic churches, historical artifacts overlapped earlier ones. The most ancient drawing to survive into the 21st century: a depiction, on a stone near the entrance, of two deer and holy ...

Islamic State released a video Sunday purporting to show the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya, which led Egypt to launch a barrage of retaliatory airstrikes near the eastern ...