Cairo, 4 Sept. (AKI) - The Egyptian Coptic Church has launched a satellite television channel aimed at targeting young people around the world. The move is in response to the growing need for the church to enter the media market and technological age, church officials said.
The Christian Youth Channel, also called Aghabi, will eventually transmit programmes in at least seven languages and aims to help Coptic youth in Egypt and abroad.
There are dozens of Muslim channels that preach to a younger generation that has emerged in Egypt.
The new channel aims to bring about a moderate view of all religion through Coptic belief.
The church confirmed that the channel would broadcast a number of programmes produced by priests living abroad in order to target all Coptic Orthodox believers living outside Egypt.
The Coptic Church is one of the Eastern Orthodox churches and shares their general beliefs.
In the year 451 the Church split from other Christian churches in a major schism at the Council of Chalcedon over the nature of Christ.
The church is estimated to have more than 160,000 members with most of them in Egypt.
1 comments:
number of copts is 8 millions not 160,000
please correct
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