An appeal to recognize Easter as an official public holiday in Egypt has been filed at the Administrative Court after the ...

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, Egypt -- A presidential decree making Christmas -- which falls on Tuesday on Egypt's Coptic Christian calendar -- a national holiday is focusing attention on relations between Christians and ...

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 ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Christians flocked to churches on Wednesday to attend Masses on Christmas Eve across the predominantly Muslim country, as the government continues to battle a ...

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 ...

CAIRO (AP) — In a show of solidarity with Egypt’s embattled Christians, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi Saturday made a symbolic appearance at an Orthodox Christmas Mass in a new cathedral as tens of ...

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 ...

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) - Millions of Egyptian Christians thronged churches across this mainly Muslim nation for Christmas Mass, held Monday amid unusually tight security but with congregations filled with hope ...