Egypt, while one of the richest countries in terms of historical ... The next day was spent in Alexandria with a stop at a very old but busy Coptic monastery along the way. Our evening dinner at the ...

Thanks to a project backed by the Lombardy Region, Milan’s Ambrosiana Library has digitised an important collection of Arabic ...

He has been head of the Coptic monastery in Jaffa since 1948 and has made several visits to Egypt.

Laced Mummy With Ancient King's 'Secret Keeper' Discovered, Leaves Archaeologists Stunned In recent years, archaeologists from Egypt unearthed a tomb near the capital city, Cairo, revealing what might ...

Today there exists in Egypt the Coptic rite which is Orthodox and the ... to the work of St. Maron in the 4th century who founded a monastery east of Antioch. Later monks moved to the mountains ...

the ruins of St. Colmcille’s sixth-century monastery and the intriguing Tau Cross that suggests early seafaring links to the Coptic Christians of Egypt. The island also boasts an abundance of ...

The history of the Coptic Orthodox Church goes back to Mark, the apostle and author of the Gospel who first brought the Christian faith to Egypt. According to tradition ... and a well-known icon from ...

According to the official statement, the church said that the attack resulted in the death of Monk Hegumen Takla El-Samuely (deputy of the Coptic Diocese of South Africa), Monk Yostos Ava Markos ...

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 ...