A new film, "The 21," recounts the beheadings 10 years ago of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS radicals. But the film also ...

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The other half, crafted in Ethiopia, depicts an Orthodox ... The Christian Orient, organised by the British Library in 1978. Since 2009 the diptych has been displayed in the museum’s Coptic ...

A bejeweled icon, or encolpion ... and Last Supper—adorn a small Coptic Orthodox chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Several Christian sects warily share the cavernous sanctuary ...

In the case of St Mary’s Coptic Church, located in Melbourne’s inner-west on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, Studio Bright has found a contemporary foothold for the Christian church ... St Mary’s ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... Traditionally, the day starts out with local girls and women decorating a replica (or “epitaph”) of Christ’s funeral ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of ...

Kollyva, the boiled wheat-based sweet offered at Greek Orthodox memorial services for the repose of ... the kollyva is placed in front of the memorial table or an icon of Christ. Afterwards, it is ...

A delegation from Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church attended the ordination ceremony of His Grace Abuna Basilios as the sixth Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church on Sunday.

The Egyptian language evolved for thousands of years, but its final form—Coptic—continues to hold cultural and religious significance today. This video explores how Coptic developed from hieroglyphics ...

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 ...