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Aug 25, 2013 · When he died in 2012, he left behind 202 Coptic churches in the U.S. The Coptic church today has more than 550 churches outside of Egypt. But this tremendous growth puts a huge burden on the...
Jul 11, 2019 · Coptic Christians are an ethnoreligious group indigenous to Northeast Africa who predominantly reside in the region of modern Egypt, where they are the biggest Christian denomination in the nation. Learn about the origin and significance of Coptic traditions in Christianity as well as the worldwide membership of Copts today.
Jun 20, 2013 · CAIRO – Thousands of Egypt’s Coptic Christians are fleeing to Europe, the United States and elsewhere rather than face mounting discrimination at home. Copts, Egypt’s ancient Christian...
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Today there are about 30 million Coptic Orthodox Christians in the world, mostly in the Middle East and Africa. The Monastery of St. Anthony is an important pilgrimage site among Copts as it...
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Among the Christians of the Middle East, the largest number – some eight million or so – is made up of Egypt’s Copts. Since I first visited Egypt in the 1990s, I have been interested in this community and its contribution to pluralism. Copts are the indigenous Christian population of Egypt, who date back to the first decades following the life of J...
Copts practice a form of Christianity that hearkens back to the earliest traditions of the church. Pope Tawadros and all of the bishops of the Coptic Orthodox Church begin their vocation as monks – celibate men living in seclusion in monasteries. The Coptic Orthodox Church is unique in its preference for placing monks in the highest positions of au...
Nonetheless, Copts have faced systemic discrimination in employment and limitations on their ability to access public services and education ever since the establishment of the modern republic of Egypt in 1952. Governing authorities made it very difficult for them to build or refurbish their churches. After the 2011 revolution, Copts initially enjo...
Apr 9, 2017 · CNN — A gun attack that killed at least 26 Coptic Christians on a bus in Egypt is just the latest assault on the religious minority group, which has been a target for deadly violence throughout...
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Apr 19, 2019 · Today, it is estimated that some 10 percent of Egyptians practice the Coptic faith, led since 2012 by Pope Tawadros II, the latest in an unbroken line of patriarchs believed to stretch back to...
