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The Egyptian army's crackdown on Mohamed Morsi's Cairo supporters unleashed the largest attack on Coptic houses of worship since 1321. ... Roman columns were engraved in the walls.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (RNS) On Monday, the Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mark held a special service to pray for the victims of the two church bombings in Egypt.
In “The Nile: The Life Story of a Great River,” historian Emil Ludwig notes that the Dendera Temple, built in Ptolomaic times, has twelve large columns, each denoting one month of the Coptic year.
The unrest in Egypt is worrying, Lila, a Coptic Christian, who is trying to get her brother and sister out of the country and to a new life in America.