This Christmas time feels different. Our joy and comfort seem more precious than in other years. We feel united in our sense of having lived through what was unimaginable until Sept. 11. We knew that ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- A presidential decree making Christmas -- which falls on Tuesday on Egypt's Coptic Christian calendar -- a national holiday is focusing attention on relations between Christians and ...

CAIRO – Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egypt as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people in a drive-by ...

The flight of the holy family is more than a historical curiosity. It points us toward the breadth and beauty of God’s redemption. The Christmas story is not a story of peace and quiet but a tale of ...

LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Coptic Christians around the world are on alert for possible copycat attacks ahead of their Christmas on Friday after Islamist radicals hailed a deadly church bombing in ...

CAIRO - Egypt's Christians on Saturday celebrated their first Christmas since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak amid tight security and pleas for national unity. The Coptic Orthodox celebration ...

CAIRO, Jan 06, 2011 (AFP) - Egyptian security forces began throwing up a cordon of steel on Thursday as Coptic Christians prepared to mark Christmas after a New Year's Day church bombing killed 21 ...

CAIRO - Egypt's Christians packed churches Thursday for mournful Christmas Eve Masses, weeping and donning black in place of colorful holiday clothes, under a heavy security cordon by police out of ...