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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.〔http://www.egittopercaso.net/valle-nilo/sohag.php〕 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.〔http://www.lawrence.altervista.org/downloads/egitto.pdf〕 Security forces (SSI) arrested over one thousand two hundred Coptic Christians in Sohag on the 15th of August 1998.〔http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/copts2.htm〕 There were riots between Copts and Christians in 1999.〔 http://www.kunstnet.de/thema/10812-islam-unterdrueckung-andersglaeubiger〕 Monk and prophet Shenute (about 350–465; Abbot of the White Monastery) was a key figure in the struggle against idolatry.〔http://egora.uni-muenster.de/gkm/sp_auto_46719.shtml〕 The governorate was the site of violent clashes of Islamists versus the government. 〔http://www.michael-mueller-verlag.de/xtras/pdf/aegypten_leseprobe_1.pdf〕 The late Patriarch Stéphanos II Ghattas of the Coptic Catholic Church, a cardinal, was born in Sohag Governorate.〔http://www.zenit.org/article-16894?l=german〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christianity in Sohag Governorate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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