Chicago Copts

Editorials

A Coptic American Like every other American, I wake up every morning with a common routine: the normal everyday struggles of getting my son ready for school, getting myself ready for work, paying bills, making food for our meals, and so on. I am lucky to have such a routine; a routine that many dream of.

What do you know about the Coptic Language By: Shereen Azer The Coptic Language is the Egyptian language, which the Church has preserved in its liturgies, prayers, books and scripts, after it became almost impossible to use as a spoken language because of the great persecution that it suffered from. Many of the foreign rulers, threatened to cut the tongue of any Egyptian that was found speaking in Coptic, in spite of it being the ancient Egyptian language… What do you know about our ancient heritage...?!