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Catholic in Cairo. Full text of interview with Rev. Douglas May. The Rev. Douglas May grew up in a small town near Buffalo, New York, but now serves as a Maryknoll missionary in Cairo, where he has worked for more than two decades. He is the only United States-born, English-speaking priest in Egypt. He provides pastoral care for several ...
Feb 10, 2011 · A little under 2,000 years (chuckling). First of all, I should say that the Catholics are a miniscule minority of the Christians in Egypt: 10% of the Egyptian population is Christian, but it is ...
The Coptic Catholic Church [a] is an Eastern Catholic particular Church in full communion with the Catholic Church. Along with the Ethiopian Catholic Church and Eritrean Catholic Church, it belongs to the Alexandrian liturgical tradition. Uniquely among the Alexandrian Rite Eastern Catholic liturgies, the Coptic Catholic Church uses the Coptic ...
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Feb 18, 2011 · In terms of raw numbers, Egypt has the largest Christian population in the Middle East. The consensus estimate is that there are eight million Christians, representing close to 10 percent of the ...
But whatever the destination, each of these churches, cathedrals and monasteries should be visited at least once. 1. The “Cave Church” - Monastery of St. Simon the Tanner. Location: Moqattam, Cairo. Established: 1975. This awesome cave church (or technically, ‘churches’ -- the St. Simon monastery complex has seven churches) is unlike ...
May 26, 2021 · Churches in Egypt: Harassed Islands in a Sea of Mosques. Minarets of a mosque tower above a church along a road leading to Cairo. [Reuters] According to a May 19, 2021 Arabic-language report, Egypt's Ministry of Endowments just announced that, since September 2020, 1,413 mosques—1,315 of which are brand new—were opened in the North Africa ...
