A new song highlights a growing interest outside the Egyptian church in reviving an ancient language of the Christian world. The darkened New York church was packed with almost 1,000 congregants ...

The heresy-fighting bishop Irenaeus of Lyon, France, mentioned the Gospel of Judas about 180 AD, linking the writing to a Gnostic sect. Some two centuries later, Epiphanius, bishop of Cyprus, ...

Egyptian Christians have developed a rich culture since Saint Mark brought the new faith to Egypt in Roman times. Today, Egypt is 90 percent Muslim, but the Copts are a powerful minority, says Father ...

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Five years ago, on a Libyan beach, ISIS militants beheaded 21 orange-clad Christian men in a meticulously choreographed propaganda video. Twenty of them were Coptic Christians originally from Egypt, ...

BOSTON (AP) - A Harvard University professor on Tuesday unveiled a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife.

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PLEASANTON — St. Mary and St. John Coptic Orthodox Church has come a long way since it started in 2007 in rented rooms in San Ramon. Today, the church, now housed on Mirador Drive in Pleasanton at ...