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CNN. 10 April 2017. The largest Christian community in the Middle East, Coptic Christians make up the majority of Egypt's roughly 9 million Christians. About 1 million more Coptic Christians are spread across Africa, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States, according to the World Council of Churches.
Christianity in Africa shows tremendous variety, from the ancient forms of Oriental Orthodox Christianity in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Eritrea to the newest African-Christian denominations of Nigeria, a country that has experienced large conversion to Christianity in recent times.
Nov 13, 2019 · While Christianity in North Africa and Egypt flourished and North African Christians strongly influenced the church in Rome, Christianity was also growing in the powerful kingdoms of Nubia (ancient Sudan) and Ethiopia.
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There are more Christians in Africa than any other continent. Image: REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko. There are already more Christians in Africa than any other continent—that’s not going to change soon.
. Coptic Church Chanting During the Liturgy. 00:00. According to tradition, the founder of the Coptic Church was the apostle St. Mark, who brought Christianity to Egypt in the 1st century. In 451...
Religion in Egypt (2020) [1] Islam (official) (90.64%) Christianity (9.26%) Other (0.1%) Religion in Egypt controls many aspects of social life and is endorsed by law. The state religion of Egypt is Islam, although estimates vary greatly in the absence of official statistics. Since the 2006 census religion has been excluded, and thus available ...
There are no official figures and estimates vary, but it is thought that between 5-25% of Egypt’s 109 million population are Christian. Christians in Egypt are known as ‘Copts’ - a people group distinct from the country’s Arab population, who historically used their own language and calendar.
