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Many Coptic families respond by fleeing from the Sinai Peninsula to Ismailia Governorate. 9 April 2017 – Bombings of two Coptic churches kill over 45 people and injures over 130. St George's Coptic Orthodox Church in the Tanta region and St Mark's Church in Alexandria were bombed during Palm Sunday processions.
The Coptic Orthodox Church ( Coptic: Ϯⲉⲕ̀ⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲟⲣⲑⲟⲇⲟⲝⲟⲥ, romanized: Ti-eklisia en-remenkimi en-orthodhoxos, lit. 'the Egyptian Orthodox Church'), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt. The ...
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t. e. Coptic history is the part of the history of Egypt that begins with the introduction of Christianity in Egypt in the 1st century AD during the Roman period, and covers the history of the Copts to the present day. Many of the historic items related to Coptic Christianity are on display in many museums around the world and a large number is ...
Aug 15, 2022 · St. Louis, Mo., Aug 15, 2022 / 14:38 pm. A massive fire at a Coptic Orthodox church in Egypt claimed the lives of 41 people on Sunday — a devastating blow for a Christian community long beset by ...
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Sep 18, 2017 · By Coptic Solidarity – Egypt’s indigenous Christians, the Copts, are under attack in a myriad of ways—from institutional and daily systematic discrimination to sporadic terrorization. While spectacular aspects of the latter, such as church bombings that cause large casualties, receive media attention, the slow motion bleeding of the Copts via unspectacular, even mundane ways receives […]
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for the largest Christian church in Egypt.The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in 451 C.E., when it took a different position over Christological theology from that of the Eastern Orthodox and Western churches, then still in union.
May 20, 2019 · The seven million Coptic Christians in Egypt form the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Christians in Egypt are facing unprecedented levels of persecution. In February 2015, Islamic terrorists beheaded 20 Coptic Christians in Libya. After their remains were repatriated to Egypt in 2018, the Coptic Church declared these men to be ...
