An Egyptian Christian has been murdered inside his own shop in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. Youssef Lamei, pictured above on the right with his son, had his throat slashed twice by an attack...
A Christian plumber has been murdered in front of his family by suspected Islamic militants, Egyptian security officials say. Investigators told Associated Press that militants had forced their way i...
An Egyptian Christian has said that when people pray for persecuted Christians, they shouldn't pray for the persecution to stop. Michael Jones, whose name has been changed for safety purposes, told P...
A number of Coptic Christians gathered outside a court in Cairo at the weekend to protest against their treatment by the justice system. Just under 50 believers chanted slogans and held banners calli...
Islamic State's leader in Egypt has warned Muslims to stay away from Christian gatherings. The warning suggests that the militant group will keep up attacks on what the leader referred to ...
An Egyptian church congregation has celebrated its first mass in seven years. Church of the Virgin Mary and Martyr Abanoub Al Nahisi, in a village south of Cairo, was closed eleven years ago by local...
A number of churches in southern Egypt have cancelled their Easter celebrations as they mourn the deaths of 45 people killed in two suicide attacks at churches Commemorations in the Coptic Orthodox ...
Several members of the United States' Congress are calling on the Egyptian attorney general to free a Coptic Christian convert from Islam who was jailed by Egyp In a letter the politicians claim Bish...
Sameh Maurice from an Evangelical Church in Cairo told Premier that Christians in Egypt feel the UK government isn't doing enough to support them. An Egyptian pastor has told Premier that Christians ...
Egypt's Interior Ministry says a policeman was killed as he was trying to defuse a homemade explosive device near a church in a residential Cairo district. The ministry said the blast, which occurred...
Two Egyptian policemen have been shot dead by masked gunmen as they guarded a Copic Christian church. The killings come a day before the Coptic Church's Christmas, on January 7th. Security at churche...
A Christian Middle East expert has said that Coptic believers are on the whole supportive of the Egyptian government, five years on since the revolution. But Dr Harry Hagopian, a church consultant an...
A prominent author in Egypt has been sentenced to three years in prison for contempt of religion. Fatima Naaot, a writer, poet and broadcaster, has found guilty of "insulting Islam" and sentenc...
They have been sentenced after being found guilty of action against national security. It's emerged eight members of the Church of Iran have been sentenced to jail after being found guilty of action ...
A church bus returning from a trip has crashed in Florida killing eight people and injuring another 10. The van, thought to be affiliated to a church in Fort Pierce area, was returning from a trip to...
Letters written by the Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein, sold at auction this week, have revealed the physicist didn't rule out the existence of God. The hand-written notes sold in Los Angeles for ...
A letter written by Albert Einstein that was expected to fetch at least $1m at auction has sold for almost $3m. The one-and-a-half-page handwritten letter in German, known as the "God letter" was wri...
A letter written by Albert Einstein mocking God and religion is expected to rake in at least $1m when it's actioned off at the end of the year in New York. The letter, penned in Germen in 1954 by the...
Police have detained a priest in El Salvador for allegedly taking mobile phones into prison. Father Antonio Rodriguez is known in the country for his work on a gang truce which had cut the murder rat...
A priest from El Salvador has been charged with helping gang members in prison to continue their work on the outside by smuggling in mobile phones. Fr Antonio Rodriguez Tercero had been released on b...
