Rights groups, such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), have reported that recent killings on the coast were ...

Aug. 22 marked the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, a day that ...

Two Christian converts from Islam who were locked in an Egyptian prison and held for three years without trial have been released, religious rights advocates said. Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo and Nour ...

Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and ...

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Chief among these is Mary Magdalene, a woman infamous in Western Christianity as an adulteress and repentant whore. Discoveries of new texts from the dry sands of Egypt, along with sharpened ...

In Egypt, the cost of such works would normally fall on the minority community associated with the site, but unlike Coptic Christians, who account for 10% of Egypt’s population, Egypt’s Jews ...

Libya The bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians beheaded in Libya by Islamic State in 2015 were flown back to Cairo on Monday, Egyptian state television reported. The victims had been among the many ...

Archaeologists have uncovered hidden remains under Egyptian pyramids, challenging long-held beliefs about burial traditions in Ancient Egypt.

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