Protestantism in Egypt
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The Evangelical Church of Egypt
Evangelical Church of Egypt (Synod of the Nile)
The Evangelical Church of Egypt , in Arabic El-Kanisah El-Injiliyah , and sometimes referred to as the Coptic Evangelical Church of Egypt, is a Protestant church that started as a mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America among Muslim and Coptic Egyptians in the late nineteenth...

 (a Protestant church) has approximately 250,000 members in Egypt. The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East is a province of the Anglican Communion stretching from Iran in the east to Algeria in the west, and Cyprus in the north to Somalia in the south. It is the largest and the most diverse Anglican province. The church is headed by a President...

 (a member of the Anglican Communion
Anglican Communion
The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches in full communion with the Church of England and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury...

) has between 10,000 and 15,000 members in Egypt. Religious freedom of Egyptian Christians
Copt
The Copts are the native Egyptian Christians , a major ethnoreligious group in Egypt....

 is hampered by government authorities. There are about 50,000 Egyptians related to American Presbyterian missions and about 75,000 members of the Evangelical Church in Egypt, Synod of the Nile. Protestants in Egypt are allowed to build churches. Annual growth of the Protestants is about 1.3%, which is lower than the growth of the Muslims. There exists a Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services.

Other Protestant denominations

  • Assemblies of God
    Assemblies of God
    The Assemblies of God , officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 140 autonomous but loosely-associated national groupings of churches which together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination...

     (75,000 members)
  • Free Methodist (120 churches, 20,000 members)
  • Christian Brethren (15,000 members)
  • Pentecostal Church of God
    Pentecostal Church of God
    The Pentecostal Church of God is a trinitarian Pentecostal Christian denomination headquartered in Joplin, Missouri, United States. As of 2006, there were 117,000 members and 2,870 clergy in 1,170 churches in the United States. Sixty churches and missions exist among the Native Americans...

     (3,775 members)
  • Pentecostal Holiness Church (1,400 members)
  • Church of God of Prophecy
    Church of God of Prophecy
    The Church of God of Prophecy is a Christian denomination with beliefs and principles similar to Pentecostal Holiness Christian faith. It is one of five Church of God bodies headquartered in Cleveland, Tennessee that descended from a small meeting of believers who gathered at the Barney Creek...

     (1,100 members)
  • Seventh-day Adventist Church
    Seventh-day Adventist Church
    The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...

     (852 members)

Sources


http://www.c4c.org/egypt.html
http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/country/?CountryID=128
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