The immigrants he wrote letters to helped establish the first Coptic Orthodox churches in North America. And only 65 years after he prayed the first Coptic Orthodox liturgy in North America, ...

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic ...

On Feb. 15, I watched a video of ISIS beheading 21 Coptic Christian men on a beach in Tripoli, Libya. The faces of the captors/executioners were hidden — cowards! And I saw the faces of the ...

The Coptic Orthodox church marks time by its martyrs. Its ecclesial calendar begins in AD 284, year 1 Anno Martyrii (Year of the Martyrs), when Emperor Diocletian ascended to the throne and put ...

Seventh session Item 10 of the agenda QUESTION OF AN INTERNATIONAL REGIME FOR THE JERUSALEM AREA AND PROTECTION OF THE HOLY PLACES Letter from the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop for Jerusalem and the ...

The Coptic text from The... A noted religious scholar doubts the veracity of a papyrus text that purports to reveal that Jesus had a wife — but includes a typo.

Visitors to St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church of Maryland in Cooksville this weekend can experience a Mediterranean market, purchase Egyptian souvenirs, and try out Mediterranean cuisine while ...

Written in letters derived from the Greek alphabet, Coptic is a descendant of the ancient Egyptian language. It was widely spoken in Egypt from the second century A.D.