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As of 2018, it was estimated that a half-million Copts lived in the United States. [1] The historic centers of Coptic American life have been in New York, New Jersey, and Southern California. [2] In the 1990s, there were more than 50 Coptic congregations in the United States. By 2018, there were more than 250 Coptic congregations in the United ...
With hundreds of Coptic Orthodox churches in the United States alone (along with over 90 congregations in Canada), [1] it is estimated that there are over one million Coptic Orthodox Christians in North America. [2] While the Coptic Orthodox form a larger number in the US, the first Coptic Orthodox parish in North America was actually founded ...
Copts, many of whom are adherents of the Coptic Orthodox Church, began migrating to the United States of America in the late 1940s. After 1952, the rate of Coptic immigration from Egypt to the United States increased. The first Coptic church in the United States, St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church, was established in the late 1960s in Jersey City.
St. John The Beloved Coptic Orthodox Church, Smyrna, Tennessee 851 Baker Rd, Smyrna, TN, United States, 37167 St. Barbara Coptic Orthodox Church - Franklin, Tennessee 9577 Clovercroft Rd. Franklin, TN, 37067
The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members. The first Assyrian American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives was Adam Benjamin in 1977, [4] and the first Persian-American U.S. representative was Stephanie Bice in 2021. [5] The first Egyptian-American and Coptic-American U.S. senator was George Helmy in ...
USA TODAY analysis finds 3.3 million Americans live in areas with "very high" wildfire risk and 14.8 million more at “relatively high” risk. USA TODAY 2 hours ago
The biggest Coptic community abroad, that of the United States, included up to 1,000,000 persons in the late 2010s according to Coptic advocacy groups, but only 300,000 according to the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States itself, and even less—roughly between 100,000 and 200,000—according to the scarce statistical evidence supplied ...
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s.