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Lazarus El Anthony has been extensively interviewed on the Coptic Youth Channel. [4] He has also been featured in a full-length episode of the BBC's Extreme Pilgrim, [5] and in The Last Anchorite, [6] a documentary film by filmmaker Remigiusz Sowa. [7] Another documentary film about Lazarus El Anthony is Desert Foreigners. [8]
Over the centuries, many Coptic historians recorded the history of the Copts and that of the Coptic Church. The most prominent of these Coptic historians are: John of Nikiu (fl. 680-690), bishop and historian; Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa (died 987), bishop, theologian, and historian; first compiler of the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria
In this way the Copts presented Egypt as more closely linked to Europe rather than to the Middle East. [12] The Copts emphasize that they have lived in Egypt longer than the Muslims and are therefore an integral part of the history and the country. In that way it gives the Copts a claim to a deep heritage in Egyptian history and culture.
Download QR code ; Print/export ... This article is a list of Egyptian people of Coptic descent (full or partial). Subcategories. This category has the following 2 ...
A number of Coptic business and land-owning families became very wealthy and influential such as the Egyptian Coptic Christian Sawiris family [13] that owns the Orascom conglomerate, spanning telecommunications, construction, tourism, industries and technology. [14] [15] In 2008, Forbes estimated the family's net worth at $36 billion.
Coptic TV (CTV) is the official Coptic Orthodox TV station broadcasting in Arabic via satellite to viewers in Egypt. Tharwat Bassily, a business man, was instrumental in establishing the television network, which was started in 2007. CTV subsequently started broadcasting in North America and elsewhere. Their headquarters are located in Cairo ...
Coptic icon of St. Simon the Shoemaker (depicted as a one-eyed man carrying a sack of water, as he used to carry water to the sick and the old every morning before going to work. The Church of the Holy Virgin in Babylon El-Darag (Babylon of the Steps) ( Arabic : كنيسة السيدة العذراء في بابليون الدرج ) is a Coptic ...
Elmasry took an interest in the history of the Coptic Orthodox Church and in 1948 published the first volume of her nine-volumes [5] book Story of the Coptic church. [6] The seventh volume of this history is about the era of Pope Cyril VI (1959–1971): the book shows how highly appreciative she was of His Holiness's work.