MAR GIRGIS MONASTERY, Egypt – There was no mention of churches torched or Christians killed, but the prayer neatly written on a tiny piece of paper and placed atop an icon of St. George in the chapel ...
No Surprise That the Supreme Court Didn’t Take a Same-Sex Marriage-Related Case The Shutdown Stumbles Toward Its End Biden Set the Stage for Today’s Pardon Disgrace Trump Admin Presses SNAP Appeal in ...
THE RED MONASTERY, Egypt – Locked inside a 6th century church in a desert monastery are some of the jewels of early Christianity – ancient murals in vivid pinks, greens and reds depicting saints, ...
Unlike the other Middle Eastern countries experiencing popular uprisings, Egypt has a significant indigenous historic Christian presence, and Christians make up about 10 percent of the population.
EL-AOUR, Egypt – This village of small mud alleys and brick homes is shattered by grief. Women draped in black are hoarse from screaming. Men sob in silence, at times shaking their heads as if to ...
Makarios, the Coptic bishop of Minya, Egypt, spent a weekend among mourners after two buses carrying Coptic Christians were ambushed as they left a monastery, killing seven of the pilgrims and ...
On clay fragments, in papyrus records —the words were everywhere: “Gone.” Battered by oppressive taxes and tormented by religious persecution, the Christian Copts (their name comes from an Arab ...
Egypt was reeling Monday in the wake of Sunday's deadly round of protests in Cairo, which claimed 24 lives. Seventeen of the fatalities were members of the country's Christian Coptic minority; the ...
The Middle East has turned hostile to Christians and other religious minorities. The Iraqi Christian community has been devastated. Syria’s civil war loosed the murderous Islamic State on Christians ...
On the morning of May 26, Mohsen Morkous, a 60-year-old Egyptian-American Christian from the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park, was traveling with his two sons, a grandson, and dozens of others to a ...
The ’Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ’splaining to do”) is an occasional feature in which the RNS staff gives you everything you need to know about current events to hold your own at the water cooler ...
This weekend, Egypt will choose as its president either Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood or Ahmed Shafik of the former Hosni Mubarak regime. (That is, unless fallout from a high court’s ...
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