- Christianity in Sohag Governorate
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Christianity is a major population in Sohag Governorate in Egypt. Christianity in Minya Governorate is a sizable population, too. Sohag Goverorate has the White Monastery (Deir el-Abyad) and the Red Monastery (Deir el-Ahmar) of the Copts.[1] Sohag is the seat of a bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. A diocese of Sohag under the Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts exists. In 2000, 21 Christians were killed in an attack by Muslims. [2] Security forces (SSI) arrested over one thousand two hundred Coptic Christians in Sohag on the 15th of August 1998. [3] There were riots between Copts and Christians in 1999. [4] Monk and prophet Shenute (about 350–465; Abbot of the White Monastery) was a key figure in the struggle against idolatry.[5] The governorate was the site of violent clashes of islamists versus the government. [6] The late Patriarch Stéphanos II Ghattas of the Coptic Catholic Church, a cardinal, was born in Sohag Governorate. [7]
References
- ^ http://www.egittopercaso.net/valle-nilo/sohag.php
- ^ http://www.lawrence.altervista.org/downloads/egitto.pdf
- ^ http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/copts2.htm
- ^ http://www.kunstnet.de/thema/10812-islam-unterdrueckung-andersglaeubiger
- ^ http://egora.uni-muenster.de/gkm/sp_auto_46719.shtml
- ^ http://www.michael-mueller-verlag.de/xtras/pdf/aegypten_leseprobe_1.pdf
- ^ http://www.zenit.org/article-16894?l=german
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