A new song highlights a growing interest outside the Egyptian church in reviving an ancient language of the Christian world. The darkened New York church was packed with almost 1,000 congregants ...

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

Five years ago, on a Libyan beach, ISIS militants beheaded 21 orange-clad Christian men in a meticulously choreographed propaganda video. Twenty of them were Coptic Christians originally from Egypt, ...