Pope Francis, right, arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, with the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Tawadros II, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

A massive fire at a Coptic Orthodox church in Egypt claimed the lives of 41 people on Sunday — a devastating blow for a Christian community long beset by persecution and hardship. Though there is no ...

VATICAN CITYVATICAN CITY — Pope Francis and the Coptic Orthodox pope, Tawadros II, delivered a joint blessing Wednesday from St. Peter’s Square in a significant ecumenical gesture to commemorate the ...

Cardinal Antonios Naguib, retired patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church, died at age 87 March 28, 2022, at a hospital in Cairo. He is pictured in a 2010 photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ROME ...

Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Egypt, precedes Pope Francis as they leave the Redemptoris Mater Chapel of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 11, 2023. (OSV News) — Catholic ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is formally recognizing 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by Islamic militants in Libya as martyrs with their own feast day, in a significant new ecumenical ...

The relics of 21 Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS in Libya will be venerated in St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday evening at an ecumenical prayer service marking their first official feast day in the ...