This Christmas time feels different. Our joy and comfort seem more precious than in other years. We feel united in our sense of having lived through what was unimaginable until Sept. 11. We knew that ...

CAIRO – Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egypt as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people in a drive-by ...

The flight of the holy family is more than a historical curiosity. It points us toward the breadth and beauty of God’s redemption. The Christmas story is not a story of peace and quiet but a tale of ...

LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Coptic Christians around the world are on alert for possible copycat attacks ahead of their Christmas on Friday after Islamist radicals hailed a deadly church bombing in ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Christians on Saturday celebrated their first Christmas since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, amid tight security and a display of national unity to allay fears of the ...

CAIRO - Egypt's Christians on Saturday celebrated their first Christmas since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak amid tight security and pleas for national unity. The Coptic Orthodox celebration ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Christians packed churches Thursday for mournful Christmas Eve Masses, weeping and donning black in place of colorful holiday clothes, under a heavy security cordon by police out ...

CAIRO - Egypt's Christians packed churches Thursday for mournful Christmas Eve Masses, weeping and donning black in place of colorful holiday clothes, under a heavy security cordon by police out of ...

Eric Carroll, a world traveller from Bury, has published Christmas Carrolls, a book capturing festive memories ...

A Hull woman who is accused of smuggling drugs into Egypt is facing the prospect of yet more time in custody before her case is heard. Laura Plummer, 33, was due to stand trial on charges in the ...