Pope Tawadros II heads to Vienna

Pope Francis I,Papal News, Vatican News, , Pope Francis I Related Stories VATICAN CITY: The Catholic and Coptic Orthodox churches are in a position to settle their historical rifts, Pope Francis said Friday as he welcomed his Coptic counterpart, ...

Pope Francis has expressed a desire to visit Egypt, according to Vatican Radio on Saturday citing the Coptic Orthodox Church Patriarch Theodoros II whom the pope received the day before in the Apostolic Palace. The date of the visit has not yet been ...

: The beating of a Coptic Orthodox priest on 4 May only a few metres from the Holy Sepulchre, during Holy Saturday celebrations, has become a major issue after an amateur video surfaced online, later posted on the Jerusalem Post website. The tape ...

Suspects are accused of involvement in violence that occurred at Cairo's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral earlier this month A misdemeanour court in Cairo ordered Monday the release pending trial of ten people who had been arrested at the clashes that ...

(AINA) -- Yesterday saw a sharp exchange of words between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Egyptian Presidency over the attacks on Copts in Al-Khosous city in Qaliubia on April 4 and 5 (AINA 4-6-2013) and the attack on mourners at St Mark ...

Israel's deputy foreign minister has issued an apology to the Coptic Orthodox Church after a Coptic priest was beaten by police during Holy Saturday observances at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Police confronted pilgrims outside the ...

CAIRO — The leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church accused President Mohamed Morsi's government on Tuesday of delinquency and misjudgments for failing to prevent sectarian street-fighting that escalated into an attack on the church's main cathedral ...

Egypt's Coptic Church unleashed one of its strongest criticisms ever of the government after back-to-back deadly attacks on Copts that the pope insists were incited by harsh anti-Christian rhetoric. An attack on the main cathedral of the Coptic ...

The Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Ignatius Zakka I., along with several bishops and archbishops of his church, has publicly thanked the Ambassador for Human Rights of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher, for the ...