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1^st Annual Modern Coptic Martyrs Remembrance Day
October 5, 2016 – Noon
National Press Club – Zenger Room, Washington DC

Coptic Solidarity is launching the first annual Modern Coptic Martyrs Remembrance Day. We seek to commemorate the hundreds of Copts who have been martyred in our modern times for their faith in the increasingly hostile environment towards religious minorities in Egypt. This Remembrance Day uses as a symbol the anniversary of the Maspero Massacre, when the Egyptian Army brutally killed 28 peaceful demonstrators and injured 327 individuals on October 9, 2011.

Speakers

Mrs. Lindsay Vessey – Director of Development & Advocacy, Coptic Solidarity

Dr. Sarah Yerkes – Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institute

Mr. Samuel Tadros – Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom

Mr. Ali Al – Ahmed – The Institute for Gulf Affairs

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WHO ARE THE COPTS?

Copts are over 10 million strong and loyal citizens of Egypt for over two millennia.
Copts are the largest Christian and largest non-Muslim community in the Middle East.
Copts are proud of our land that protected a young Jesus and Holy Family and fostered the growth of the Church from its earliest days.
Copts are blessed by the Lord, who declared “Blessed be Egypt, my people” – Isaiah 19:25
Copts have been persecuted with the earliest followers of Christ and have seen many hostile rulers come and go, from the Greeks and Romans to the Turks and Arabs, but have always remained rooted in our faith and in our nation.
Now, in age where much of the world lives in an era of enlightenment, our very existence is threatened by an evil force of Islamists for whom Copts stand in the frontline of their ambition for world domination.
An Egypt without Copts would be a Christianity without one of its pillars, and an Egypt and Middle East sacrificing one of its most progressive and positive communities.
Help us safeguard our livelihoods and obtain the rights of our fellow citizens to make for a more just, more modern, and more peaceful Egypt and world!

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