Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 photo, Father Reweis Khalil brings the bread (Body of Christ) to worshippers during Sunday service ...

Abutters are planning to appeal a Zoning Board of Appeals decision approving an expansion of the St. Mary and St. George Coptic Orthodox Church on Furnace Street citing noise, light and water safety ...

It didn't sound like Christmas to Western ears, but it was an ancient expression of joy in the birth of Jesus. These were not traditional carols, but brass cymbals and the clang of a triangle ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Religious leaders of different denominations united as one during a service in Great Kills honoring the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded in Libya by members of the Islamic State ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- Coptic Christians in New Jersey are planning a prayer service this week for the 21 members of their faith purportedly beheaded by Islamic State extremists in Libya. As ...

For 17 years, Sally Zakhari said she told priests and leaders in the Coptic Orthodox Church her childhood nightmare — how a Coptic priest visiting from Egypt sexually abused her at her Florida home ...