Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
As of 2019, "Copts are generally understood to make up approximately 10 percent of Egypt's population," [6] with an estimated population of 9.5 million (figure cited in the Wall Street Journal, 2017) [1] or 10 million (figure cited in the Associated Press, 2019). [2]
Some Copts complain that the police do not respond when crimes are committed against them. Copts also have little representation in government, leading them to fear there is little hope of progress. [41] The government and other Egyptian sources blame tribal behavior in rural Egypt for much of the violence. [45] [46] [47] [48]
Outside of the Coptic primary area of residence within parts of present-day Egypt (Copts in Egypt), Sudan (Copts in Sudan), and Libya (Copts in Libya), the largest Coptic diaspora population is located within the United States, Canada, and Australia. The first Coptic Orthodox church in North America is St. Mark in Toronto; it was built in 1964 ...
On 14 August 2022, a fire broke out at the Abu Sefein Church, a Coptic Christian Orthodox church in the Imbaba neighborhood of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. The fire started during Sunday worship services when nearly 5,000 worshippers were gathered. [1][2][3] The fire, which investigations found started due to a faulty air-conditioning ...
In 1839, Jean-François Champollion suggested that: "In the Copts of Egypt, we do not find any of the characteristic features of the ancient Egyptian population. The Copts are the result of crossbreeding with all the nations that successfully dominated Egypt. It is wrong to seek in them the principal features of the old race." [20]
[1] [3] [4] [5] The attack was the deadliest act of violence against Egypt's Coptic Christians in a decade, since the Kosheh massacre in 2000 left 20 Copts dead. [6] The target of the bombing was the Saints Church, a Coptic church located across the street from the Masjid Sharq El-Madina mosque.
v. t. e. On Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017, twin suicide bombings took place at St. George's Church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria, seat of the Coptic papacy. At least 43 people were reported killed and 789 injured. [1]
Minya, Egypt [2] Venerated in. Coptic Orthodox Church. Feast. 15 February (Amshir 8) [3] On 26 May 2017, masked gunmen opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts from Maghagha in Egypt 's Minya Governorate to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor, killing at least 33 people [5] and injuring 22 others. [6][7]