Re: CHAT: Religions (was: Visible planets)

Adam Walker scripsit:

> I also understand that many Coptic churches in Egypt
> have gone over to using Arabic in their liturgy, at
> least in services designed to draw young people.
*slaps head*

*tries again*

> > I count nine Christian churches whose adherents are mostly
> > Arabic-speaking today: the Assyrian Church of the East (so-called
> > "Nestorian"), the Oriental Orthodox Syriac and Coptic Churches
> > (so-called "Monophysite"), the Orthodox Syrian Church, the four
> > Catholic counterparts of these (Chaldean, Syrian, Coptic, and Melkite
> > respectively), and the Maronite Catholic Church.  In addition,
> > there are doubtless individual Arabs who are Latin Catholics or
> > Protestants or belong to another Orthodox church.
Of these nine, some use Arabic services at least some of the time, others don't.

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