O n June 1, an 18-year-old, middle-class Coptic Christian woman in Upper Egypt went to school as usual – but was then caught in a web of Islamist students, administrators, police and sheikhs ...

A heart-wrenching new film recounts the beheadings 10 years ago this week of 21 Coptic Christians at the hands of ISIS radicals. Yet the film, simply titled "The 21," also tells the poignant story ...

Twenty of them were Coptic Christians originally from Egypt ... the centurion, the Samaritan woman.” This perspective on language even extends to how Father Anthony and his wife parent their ...

Majda, Monika and Heidi are part of the Panorama theatre troupe in the village of El Barsha, a small Coptic Christian community in the south of Egypt. As they devise and perform plays in the ...

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A Sydney Coptic woman’s apparent murder has triggered a conversation in the Coptic-Australian community about domestic violence, and comes amid national debate around violence against women.