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So the leadership of Egypt’s Coptic Church gets marks for conducting a truly transparent papal-selection process — literally and physically transparent. On Sunday morning,...

"A constitution that hints at imposing a religious state in Egypt is absolutely rejected," he told journalists on Monday, a day after he was...

Hours after Bishop Tawadros, bishop of the Nile River delta region of El Beheira, was chosen as the next Coptic pope in an elaborate...

The 60-year-old succeeds Pope Shenouda III, who died in March aged 88.He succeeds as attacks on Copts are on the increase, and many say...

All three senior clerics whose names were in the chalice were considered consensus candidates who stayed out of disputes both within the church and...

The change comes on the same day that a report revealed that police in Egypt had foiled a plot by al-Qaida-linked militants to attack...

Sarah Ishaq Abdelmalek, born on August 1, 1998 in the town of el-Dabaa, 130 kilometers from Mersa Matrouh, was on her way to school...

Ultraconservatives known as Salafis have pushed for firm language in the new constitution to ensure implementation of Shariah, even calling for demonstrations on Friday....