| For all these reasons, more than 500,000 Copts are estimated to have left Egypt for the West in the past decade. |
| With great joy I received the announcement of Your Beatitude's election to the Patriarchal See of Alexandria for Copts and your request for Ecclesiastical Communion. |
| Today, Coptic is still used in church services in the United States where large congregations of Egyptian Copts are found. |
| Recently, Copts have introduced English into their church services to maintain the participation of new generations of American-born Egyptians. |
| On the eve of both Christmas day and Easter day, Orthodox Copts break their fast with a variety of dishes made of beef and poultry. |
| Moreover, ethnically differentiated people have been lumped together, for example, the Copts and the Berbers are not ethnically the same people. |
