Talk:Christianity in Egypt

message: The numbers in this article don't add up. It states that 10% of Egypt's population is Christian, which would be about 8 million people. It then says that the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, which represents 95% of Christians, has 10 to 15 million members in one section, and then in the table states that church has at most 4 million members. - SimonP (talk) 14:43, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've trimmed out some dead sources (or extremely old ones) and expanded those I could and put a fuller explanation of who states what when in a explanatory note.  Someone might want to explore the Pew Data a bit more carefully since unlike most of the other sources they (a) reveal how they got the number and give the various caveats and (b) a primary purpose was to find that number rather than have it as auxiliary to the main thrust of the info http://www.pewforum.org/2011/12/19/global-christianity-regions/ --Erp (talk) 21:38, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
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message: Was surprised to see that there was nothing about how Islam came to replace Christianity as the predominant religion in Egypt.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.253.129.86 (talk) 01:51, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The end of Christian dominance in Egypt 

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message: and  have been removing a sourced sentence on the decline in numbers of Copts and left an edit summary of: "Most Copts didn’t leave the church. There is more genetic difference between Copts & noncopts in Egypt than the difference between English & Irish. This is why Copts & noncopts of Egypt don’t cluster with each other on the PCA plot. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep09996)"  The Nature article never mentions the English/Irish nor indicates that the sourced material removed is wrong.  I hope the person behind the IP will respond here with more info.  --Erp (talk) 00:32, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
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message: Pew Research Center sought to answer this question based on data from on verifiable census figures and other nationwide surveys. They came up with 4 million (5% of Egyptians). Eight consecutive census results from 1927 to 1996 shows a declining trend in Christian population; 5.7% in 1996. Even if we take in account the possibility of Christians being under-counted in censuses, other surveys too provide the same figures. In the nationally represented Egyptian Demographic and Health Survey of 2008, about 5% of the respondents were reported Christian. Qscience Connect analysed data from the same 2008 survey and found out that there are about 4,274,145 Copts in Egypt. Other estimates are not based on surveys, per se. Yet reputed government agencies like US Department of state, the CIA and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office estimate the Egyptian Christian population at 9 to 10% (close to 10 million). Likewise media houses with some repute like the BBC and CNN estimate the Coptic Christian population between 6 to 11 million. The incorrect previous estimate of 20 to 30 million Egyptian Christians, merely based on the claims of the Coptic Orthodox church was way above all these estimates by reliable and reputed sources. The poor sources cited for such an unrealistic figure were dubious and unreliable. Hence rounded Coptic Orthodox population at 10 million as in other Wikipedia articles like the list of Christian denominations by number of members. Please note that this figure of 10 million is more than double the survey results and would include the Coptic diaspora.--Longsword9 (talk) 12:45, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many Christians in Egypt? 

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