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Pope Francis urged an end to "horror and death" in Syria on Sunday as he celebrated the traditional Easter Day ...

Egyptian Copts observed a solemn Good Friday with prayers and fasting, as the community reeled from two church bombings that ...

Egyptian Copts observed a solemn Good Friday with prayers and fasting, as the community reeled from two church bombings that ...

Egypt's Coptic Church announced on Wednesday that it would cut back Easter celebrations to a simple mass after twin bombings ...

Egypt's parliament on Tuesday unanimously approved a three-month state of emergency declared by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after deadly church ...

Funerals have been held in Alexandria for victims of one of the two bomb attacks on Coptic churches in Egypt ...

Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn 45 Egyptian Christians killed in jihadist bombings just a week before Easter, after Cairo declared ...

Pope Francis will visit Egypt as planned this month despite the weekend bombings of two Coptic Christian churches that killed ...

The Egypt bomb blasts occurred on Palm Sunday; a Christian feast commemorating the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem… Two bomb ...

Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic churches that left ...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared a state of emergency after two deadly bombings Sunday, the first at a ...

Pope Francis have condemned the blast that killed at least 21 people and injured 50 Pope Francis, who is due ...

Two blasts targeting Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday have killed at least 42 people, officials say. In Alexandria, ...

At least 11 people were killed in an Alexandria church bombing on Sunday, hours after a blast killed 25 worshippers ...

Egypt's Copts, targets of an apparent church bombing north of Cairo on Sunday, are the Middle East's largest Christian minority ...

A bomb blast at a church north of Cairo killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens who had gathered ...

International outrage is mounting over a suspected chemical attack that killed scores of civilians in a rebel-held town in northwest ...

A New Jersey teen pleaded guilty Monday to an allegedly Islamic State-inspired plot to kill Pope Francis during his US ...

The parents of Giulio Regeni, the Cambridge University student tortured to death in Egypt last year, appealed Monday to Pope ...

Pope Francis on Sunday called for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, urging an end to the bloodshed in ...