A North Staffordshire church will remain a place of worship after being sold. The Archdiocese of Birmingham has confirmed the ...

The Catholic Encyclopedia describes the situation ... This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 ...

The Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church in India is set for a major event as Joseph Mor Gregorious, the current Malankara Metropolitan, prepares to be consecrated as the new Catholicos, also known as ...

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

Eastern and Western churches have used different methods to calculate the date of Easter. Only rarely do they coincide. The ...

[S&W, pp. OT 434-435; JBC, p. 517] Now the Catholic Church is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also ...

Bishop Kyrillos William of Assiut (Photo: Aid to the Church in Need) Coptic Catholic Bishop Kyrillos William of Assiut told the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need that things were "getting ...

The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, condemned the beheadings. "They were killed simply for the fact that they were Christians," he said at the Vatican. Egypt's Coptic Christian pope ...