The Coptic Orthodox Church

Denomination·Founded 451 CE·est. ~10 million, and disputed: the church claims 15 million in Egypt, while the state statistics agency CAPMAS puts all Egyptian Christians near 5.7 per cent of the population.

Judaism → Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy → The Coptic Orthodox Church

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How to Live

the ethic — what it asks of a life
A martyr is not a defeat. The Coptic calendar counts its years Anno Martyrum, from the accession of Diocletian in 284, so every date a Copt writes is a reference to persecution. The ethic that follows is not a search for death but a refusal to trade the confession for safety — and a refusal to leave. Go deeper — context →
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