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  1. 22 hours ago · In 1959, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was granted autocephaly. This was extended to the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church in 1998 following the successful Eritrean War of Independence from Ethiopia. Since the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Coptic Christians have suffered increased religious discrimination and violence.

  2. 22 hours ago · Coptic Egyptian emerged as a distinct language in the third century and for about two centuries it coexisted with Demotic. Although the Old Coptic experiments with the Greek alphabet took place in the circles of traditional (“pagan”) temple administration and education, the alphabetic writing system was embraced and proliferated by the early Church for writing Christian scriptures, likely ...

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  4. 4 days ago · Tawadros II (born November 4, 1952, Mansoura, Egypt) is the 118th pope of Alexandria and patriarch of the see of St. Mark (2012– ) and leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, an autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) church of the Oriental Orthodox communion. Soliman was born into a devout Christian family outside Cairo.

  5. 5 days ago · Coptic Orthodox Church. The Coptic Church was established in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by St. Mark the Evangelist in the city of Alexandria around 61 A.D. The church adheres to the Nicene Creed. St. Athanasius (296-373 A.D.), the twentieth Pope of the Coptic Church effectively defended the Doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ’s Divinity ...

  6. 3 days ago · The Church of the East was headed by the Catholicose of the East seated originally in Seleucia-Ctesiphon, continuing a line that, according to its tradition, stretched back to the Apostolic Age. According to its tradition, the Church of the East was established by Thomas the Apostle in the first century.

  7. 5 days ago · Since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Egypt's Coptic Christians have been the target of increasing opposition and discrimination. [ citation needed ] In 2011, anti-Christian activity in Egypt included church burnings, protests against the appointment of a Coptic Christian governor in Qena , and deadly confrontations with the Egyptian army.

  8. 5 days ago · Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion, marking the end of the 55-day-long period of Lent, known as the Great Fast. The Copts in Egypt, a predominantly Muslim country ...

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