VATICAN CITYVATICAN CITY — The Vatican is formally recognizing 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by Islamic militants in Libya as martyrs with their own feast day, in a significant new ...

Pope Francis offered Mass Tuesday in honor of the 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians who were ruthlessly beheaded by Islamic State militants in Libya, while also condemning man’s capability for evil and ...

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The relics of 21 Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS in Libya will be venerated in St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday evening at an ecumenical prayer service marking their first official feast day in the ...

CAIRO (RNS) The gruesome video released by militants from the Islamic State showing the killing of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya has focused the world’s attention on the plight of Christians there and ...

The gunmen went from room to room in a residence for the workers at 2:30 a.m. They asked for identification papers so that they could separate out the Christians from the Muslims. The Christians were ...

An Egyptian Coptic Christian teenager abducted in Libya by armed men who killed her parents has been found dead, a hospital source said Friday. Residents found the body of the daughter of the two ...

ANAHEIM (CBSLA.com) — The Coptic Christian community in Anaheim is in mourning after ISIS released a video Sunday showing a mass beheading of 21 Coptic Christian men in Libya. The men were from Egypt ...

A bombing on Sunday at a building belonging to a Coptic church in western Libya killed two Egyptian men and wounded two others, a military spokesman said, Reuters reported. Attackers threw a homemade ...

A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly killed by ISIS militants in Libya reacts after hearing the news on Feb. 16, 2015 in the village of Al-Our in Egypt's southern province ...