Pope Francis meets with the bishops of the Coptic Catholic Church at the Vatican, February 6, 2017. (Credit: L’Osservatore Romano.) Listen ROME — A special invitation to visit Egypt was delivered to ...

The Coptic Catholic church has welcomed a new Egyptian law to facilitate the building of Christian places of worship. On Aug. 30 Egypt passed a law codifying the rights of Christians to build and ...

This story appears in the Francis in Egypt feature series. View the full series. The crowd reacts as Pope Francis arrives to celebrate Mass at the Air Defense Stadium in Cairo April 29. (CNS ...

A sad fact of life for Christians in many parts of the world is that the holiest days on their calendar also tend to be peak periods in terms of exposure to lethal assaults. Terrorists who see ...

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 ...

In a message sent by the Pope to Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, the current Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria, Pope Francis recalled Cardinal Naguib’s ‘faith and priestly zeal’ and his ...

‘I pray for the dead and the injured, and I am close in spirit to the family members and to the entire community,’ the Holy Father said. Women cry during the April 10 funeral for those killed in a ...

Bishop Antonios Aziz, representative for the Catholic Church in the 50-member constitutional amendment committee, said the body is still not united over a phrase describing Egypt as a "civil state" in ...

The Vatican confirmed Monday that Pope Francis' trip to Egypt at the end of the month will go on as planned, despite terrorist attacks which killed more than 43 people during Palm Sunday celebrations ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Francis has accepted an invitation to Cairo on April 28-29 from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Catholic bishops, the pope of the Coptic church of Alexandria and the country's ...

Egypt sent fresh humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip on Sunday as Israeli attacks and aid restrictions continued to deepen the territory’s humanitarian crisis.

A special invitation to visit Egypt was delivered to Pope Francis by Coptic Catholic bishops during their ad limina visit Feb. 6, during which they also gave a report on the state of the Church in ...