Christianity is the religion of large part of the population in Minya Governorate in Egypt. The Copts made up 19.4% of the population in the year 1914[1] and even today they form the majority in some parts of the governorate, as Copts presently account approximately 40% of Minya Government region.[2] There exists a Minya eparchy of the Coptic Catholic Church, which is part of the Roman Catholic Church. Antonios Naguib, the Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, was born in Salamout in 1935.[3]
The area also has a quite large Protestant population.[4]
Christianity is the religion of a major part of the population in Sohag Governoratein Egypt. MinyaGovernorate, Asyut Governorate, and Qena Governorate...
Sohag Governorate and MinyaGovernoratein Egypt to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor. At least 7 people from Minya were killed while 12 others...
gunmen opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts from Maghagha in Egypt's MinyaGovernorate to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor, killing at least...
Church (Kafr Yusuf Samri, Sharqia Governorate) St. George Coptic Orthodox Church (Minya al-Qamh, Sharqia Governorate) Holy Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox...
Testament writings found in Oxyrhynchus, in Middle Egypt, which date around the year 200 AD. In the 2nd century, Christianity began to spread to the rural...
Accord Palestinian Governorates: 16 (11 in the West Bank, 5 in Gaza) Jerusalem Governorate: Jerusalem District Bethlehem Governorate: Bethlehem District...
romanized: el-Bahnasa), is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo inMinyaGovernorate. It is also an important archaeological...
travelling between Cairo and Minya on its way to a monastery. 12 December – A Coptic man and his son were killed inMinyaGovernorate by a police officer responsible...
the Nile in Egypt. It has been the capital of Sohag Governorate since 1960, before which the capital was Girga and the name of the governorate was Girga...
of the See of St. Mark. He was born in the village of Galda, the governorate of El-Minya, Egypt. He became a monk in the Monastery of Saint Macarius the...
Gharbia Governorate, it is a center for the cotton-ginning industry. One of the major railway lines goes through Tanta. Annual festivals are held in Tanta...
of Alexandria, which was one of the major centres of Christianityin the Eastern Roman Empire. In the modern world, the Coptic Orthodox Church and the...
attracted the first tourists to the wadi. The desolate region became one of Christianity's most sacred areas. The desert fathers and cenobitic monastic communities...
villages in Egypt, 13 of them from Al-Our, MinyaGovernorate, were kidnapped in Sirte in two separate attacks on December 27, 2014, and in January 2015...
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different villages in Egypt, 13 of them from Al-Our, MinyaGovernorate, were kidnapped in Sirte in two separate attacks on 27 December 2014, and in January 2015...
2006 to 2013. He was made a cardinal in 2010. He was bishop of Minyain Egypt from 1977 to 2002. Naguib was born in Samalut, Egypt. From 1953 to 1958, he...
قتل وحرق المسيحيين في إثيوبيا؟" (in Arabic). 6 November 2019. Ross K, Tadros M, Johnson T, eds. (2018). Christianityin North Africa and West Asia. Edinburgh...
various NGOs expressed "deep alarm" after an Egyptian Minya Criminal Court sentenced 529 people to death in a single hearing on 25 March 2014. Sentenced supporters...
city in the Giza Governorate of Egypt. Successive census results indicate a considerable steady rise in its population - 73,298 in 1986, 91,732 in 1996...
monastery is situated in the Western Desert, not far from the cultivated land of the Nile. The monastery is located inMinyaGovernorate about 300 km south...
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