It only took 20 years to build the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, but this church has been in construction since 1882 ...

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A team of archaeologists unearthed a 1,600-year-old Christian church in Egypt, along with astonishing human remains. The excavation was led by David Ratzan, a scholar of ancient civilizations at ...

[CAIRO] A year after Hamas’s October 2023 assault on Israel, Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Christians remain divided over how to ...

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According to legend, it was St. Mark who introduced Christianity to Egypt, and it was here that Africa's first Christian church – the Coptic Church of Egypt – thrived. To learn more about ...

A policeman has been killed trying to defuse a bomb outside a Coptic Christian church in Egypt, security officials say. Mustafa Abid was reportedly a specialist in mine clearance. The explosion ...

The first time Elizabeth Bolman, PhD, saw the interior of the church in Egypt's Red Monastery, the walls were covered in soot, grime and oil from liturgical rites, and even had wasp nests. Still, she ...

The small, but vibrant, community of Greeks, with roots deep in history, remains in the Egyptian capital of Cairo to this day.

Egypt’s Ambassador to Belgium Ahmed Abu Zeid attended, on Saturday 11-1-2025, the opening ceremony of a new Coptic church in Bruges, alongside Bishop Arsenios, the Bishop of Holland and overseer of ...