These poems by an author of Coptic (Egyptian Christian Orthodox ... The poems highlight the ways in which diaspora Coptic women navigate taslīm or the responsibilities of transmitting ancestral ...

Although Christians and Muslims joined in protests ... The man had been involved with a Muslim woman—taboo throughout Egypt—setting off a dispute that ended only when the woman’s father ...

Instead she looked to the internet, writes journalist Leah Sottile in her new book, Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False ...

The leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and France called Monday ... as well as violations of Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem.” The three leaders emphasized “the importance of unified ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as ...

Of course, science and biology are integral in this symbolism: The female reproductive cell is an egg, after all. Apart from ...

Crowds flocked to St. Peter’s Square as well-wishers worldwide laid flowers at churches around the world with bells pealing ...

The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just ...

The hall’s reliefs were still completely covered in soot when, in 2018, a joint Egyptian-German team, led by Egyptologist Christian Leitz ... Leitz says. “Women and foreigners had no access ...

Quite open-minded in his spouses, Muhammad even had converted Jewish wives and had a son (who died as a baby) with an Egyptian Christian woman. Even talking back to the influential Prophet ...