In the u.s. the mormons on a mission are easily identified by the suits worn and the bicycling jaunts made during their mission years after high school is completed; the jehovas witnesses are known for basically going door to door to increase membership numbers...is there something that's worn/some sort of trait that coptic christians on a mission stand out by?
2007-07-24 13:39:47 · 10 answers · asked by tamarah r 1 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Egypt
randomly, I'm not living in egypt. Am in bavaria for a few more mos. until I return to the U.S. to work on my plan of living the rest of my life in Italy.
2007-07-24 13:57:21 · update #1
The term "Coptic" is sometimes used synonymously with the term "Egyptian", but that is not entirely precise or accurate.
The term "Coptic Christian" is generally used to refer to an adherent of the "Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria" in Egypt. About 95% of Egypt's self-described "Christians" are adherents of that "Coptic Church" (its more common name).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Church
Around the globe, the vast majority of self-described "Christians" do little in the way of preaching, and sadly this is also true of the Coptic Church. By contrast, Jehovah's Witness Christians in Egypt actually do work to preach both informally and formally, including by means of the door-to-door ministry.
Because their work is under ban, it makes it impossible for them to publish their statistics for this repressive, predominantly Muslim country. Jehovah's Witness Christians in Egypt are including in their report for "29 other lands".
http://www.watchtower.org/e/statistics/worldwide_report.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
Interestingly, about 6% of the Witnesses in those 29 lands have been baptized just in the past year!
Learn more:
http://jw-media.org/people/ministry.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_05.htm
2007-07-25 05:34:56 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
wow, ....................nothing ,,, sometimes ago the Catholics built some schools with a promise not to be religion oriented ,, you are living in Egypt, are not you, ,, after all you should know that converting of a Muslim is not legally accepted,nor socially(that will be for both Muslims or christians) and always creates lot sof problems for all ,,,,,.. if you are asking among the Christians themselves, well I think there was an agreement among the 3 main christian divisions , that , no diversity is accepted (as that was a way to some Coptic Christians to get a divorce)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt#Religion
2007-07-24 13:53:52 · answer #2 · answered by Zoser 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do but not in a public way
& when they are discoverd they face trouble
Also muslims do the same on a narrow basis
I know 5 christians converted to Islam in Egypt but I never seen any muslim converted
This conversion thing isn't a big deal because the religon of the person is inside his heart not on his ID
2007-07-24 23:19:45 · answer #3 · answered by Far Away ( Almost there) 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If they are truly Christians, they will have the shine of the Holy Spirit on their faces...Otherwise known as: The glory of the Lord reflected on their faces.
See Exodus 34:29-35 and 2 Corinthians 3:18.
2007-07-24 13:42:35 · answer #4 · answered by oooooolala! 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with theuser you can't see me !!? he gave the best answer here ..& yes I agree about the mormon & Jehovas witnesses missions but Iam sure it wonot work here in Egypt bec we Egyptians (Christians&Muslims)are known for our strong religion beliefs , people are religious here,they donot give up their religion easily
2007-07-25 04:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Sherry♥ 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you are not planing to live in Egypt and you are going to Italy what the heck make you worry about Christians of Egypt huh?
Are you working in the vatican next year
2007-07-25 04:52:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Coptic christians do not promote their beliefs to others. as the "others" are Muslims, and Muslims don't appreciate any other religion to be promoted on them.
By the way, Muslims don't promote Islam on Christians either..those acts are against the interests of the national security of Egypt.
2007-07-24 18:48:53 · answer #7 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
they promote their religion by doing good things to other ppl such as giving them food to eat,clothes to wear,and such other stuff and by this way they prove that they're good ppl , and attract ppl to their religion , they also promote for peace of our country , love, and harmony .
2007-07-25 00:36:32 · answer #8 · answered by xXblacknwhiteXx 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
look at that
2007-07-25 03:35:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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.. wished they would - there would be much to us muslim to learn from!
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2007-07-24 23:42:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋