{"id":26123,"date":"2011-01-06T10:15:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T14:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/coptic-church-celebrates-the-l\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T14:15:47","slug":"coptic-church-celebrates-the-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/coptic-church-celebrates-the-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Coptic Church celebrates the Lord&#8217;s nativity amid tragedy, oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Pope%20Shenouda%20III%2C%20the%20head%20of%20Egypt%27s%20Coptic%20Orthodox%20church%2C%20leads%20prayers%20at%20the%20Coptic%20Cathedral%20in%20Cairo%2C%20Egypt%2C%20early%20Thursday%2C%20Jan.%207%2C%202010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope Shenouda III, Coptic Cathedral in Cairo Jan. 7, 2010.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church, leads prayers at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010-thumb-300x204-8217.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>The Coptic Church, along with other non-Chalcedonian churches, are celebrating Christmas today. Besides some Christological differences, the Copts (the Egyptian Orthodox Christians; there are Coptic Catholics, too!) follow the Julian calendar which is a number of days behind the Gregorian calendar. About 10% of the Egyptians are Christian.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In this season of Christian-killing by fanatical muslims, truly a season of martyrdom, let us pray for the Copts and give thanks for their witness to Christ. Blessings to Pope Shenouda III. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/01\/05\/AR2011010503489.html\">Merry Christmas<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coptic Church, along with other non-Chalcedonian churches, are celebrating Christmas today. Besides some Christological differences, the Copts (the Egyptian Orthodox Christians; there are Coptic Catholics, too!) follow the Julian calendar which is a number of days behind the Gregorian calendar. About 10% of the Egyptians are Christian. In this season of Christian-killing by fanatical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/coptic-church-celebrates-the-l\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coptic Church celebrates the Lord&#8217;s nativity amid tragedy, oppression<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1711,1712,2604],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}