A sense of panic quickly spread among mourners as they prepared to leave Cairo's main Coptic cathedral on Sunday afternoon. Young men ran in and out of the church telling funeral attendees to beware ...

JERUSALEM – The leader of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church is making a rare visit to Israel to attend the funeral of a senior Coptic official in Jerusalem. Pope Tawadros II broke a ban on pilgrimages to ...

One person has been killed in clashes at Cairo's Coptic cathedral after funeral prayers for four Christians during which angry Copts chanted against Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, an official said.

The Cathedral will be closed to the general public for tomorrow's funeral, after 3 deaths due to overcrowding Bishop Paul of Tanta has declared that the doors of the St Mark's Cathedral in Abbasiya ...

One person was killed and more than 80 wounded in clashes at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in central Cairo on Sunday after a funeral service for four Egyptian Christians killed in sectarian violence ...

Thousands clashed with police during a funeral procession yesterday for the seven people killed in an attack on churchgoers leaving a midnight Mass for Coptic Christians. The protesters pelted cars ...

CAIRO - Tearful and wearing mourning black, tens of thousands of Egyptian Coptic Christians on Tuesday joined a funeral Mass for their patriarch, Pope Shenouda III, at the main cathedral in Cairo. St.

(AINA) -- The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt issued a statement on October 10, expressing horror at the events of yesterday in Maspero, where 24 Copts were killed and over 200 and wounded. The church ...

In Egypt, today, Coptic Christian mourners thronged around Cairo's main cathedral. They gathered to say a final farewell to their patriarch, Pope Shenouda III. He was affectionately called Baba, or ...

Thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenouda III, who has now been laid to rest in a monastery in the Egyptian desert. The 88-year-old pope, who promoted religious ...

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