After my visit to Coptic Cairo, I drove 70 miles northwest to ... which would remove strictures that make building a church in Egypt nearly impossible. But Sidhom says that some members of the ...

This neighborhood in southern Cairo is the oldest part of the city, with twisting alleyways and ancient churches that are several centuries older than the ornate mosques of Islamic Cairo.

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned on Sunday the passing of Metropolitan Elder and Acting Patriarch Pakhomious, who died at nearly 90 years old after a lifetime of devoted service to the church ...

A fire ripped through a church in a densely populated neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital of Cairo ... the Coptic Church said. It was one of the worst fire tragedies in Egypt in recent years.

Born and raised in the Soviet Union, where religion had been systematically suppressed, Nikolskaya was fascinated by ...

At least 41 people, 15 children among them, were killed Sunday at the Martyr Abu Sefein Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo's working ... unit on the second floor, Egypt's Interior Ministry said.

There is however one thing that both the Coptic church members and Jewish families have in common with everyone else in the ...

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celebrating the centennial of the Coptic Art Museum. Founded in 1910 by an influential Copt, Marcus Pasha Simaika, the museum was built next to the famous Hanging Church in Old Cairo. The Museum ...

CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters ... Roman era, its Coptic Christian bishop said. But he blamed ongoing restoration work for water that seeped through three floors of the Hanging Church in Old Cairo ...