ok, so i am a religious boy in High school, i will finish my grade 12 and i will move to Canada with my family for the universities and from the stuff that i care the most is the Church.
so i need to know are Coptic Canadians religious, pious, devout. do they like Church, interested in knowing Coptic and memorizing hymns, know about the Bible and religion as there is Egypt. in my Church, 99% of boys and girls are interested in Church and they attend "Mahragan" even if they aren't that relgious but they make me feel good.
or they are like people in gulf, don't care about Church, they just come to eat and see their friends. we don't neither coptic nor hymns classes, and that's bad.
and i just want an overview about the majority! and what about the other Christian canadians too?
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I know there's a mission community down there. That means that they go and talk to Canadians about God, and our church, and I've actually met some of their converts. I believe it's Saint Verina's church?
Those churches will probably be very strong, but I've heard about churches that are weaker as well.
It ultimately depends on the group of friends you end up with. Some groups are very devout and they are all about church, and some of course are nominal. I'm sure you can find a strong group if that's what you are looking for.
If you're asking, we do the Mahragan every year too, but I will admit that it's much more common for grade school than university students.
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I know there's a mission community down there. That means that they go and talk to Canadians about God, and our church, and I've actually met some of their converts. I believe it's Saint Verina's church?
How can i find these people, i reallynlike joining them, i am always thinking about preaching...
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what does "Tenacpi esna onkh" mean?
it means " our language will live" as my 1st question on this website was about coptic..
Actually yea, my first landing will be Toronto so i was wondering if people there are the same as I see the westerns in TV.
No. Egyptian tv is very mean to westerners. It depicts them as completley without morals. They dress more openly than we do. There are also things that they don't care about, that we do. No one cares how you dress, what you do, sin or not. As long as you're not bothering anyone else.
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I usually prefer settling in an area with less arabs. I had eniugh living with them but it shocks me that a lot of arabs here in Dubai, some of them are mozlems holding the canadian nationality :/
don't worry about arabs. but toronto is FULL or somolians. I don't know about toronto, but in my city, egyptian christians and egyptians muslims don't mix. We stay away from each other. Not because we hate each other or something, its just because we go to our church, and our kids go to christian schools. So we don't come into contact with them. it's probably the same in toronto, but I'm not sure
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I know there's a mission community down there. That means that they go and talk to Canadians about God, and our church, and I've actually met some of their converts. I believe it's Saint Verina's church?
How can i find these people, i reallynlike joining them, i am always thinking about preaching...
this is their church website
http://www.smsv.ca/index.shtml
I will warn you though. because it's a preaching community, they have to adapt to western culture a bit. The liturgy is in english. there's very little coptic used, because they have asians, and white people come often. There's less egyptian culture. its more about the orthodox doctrine.
There's more egyptian communities that are all about the coptic and the hymns and egyptian culture. I believe they do mission trips as well. but not in Canada. Here's one:
http://www.stmark.toronto.on.coptorthodox.ca/
and thanks a lot for your help but not for now, i am only staying for a month but i will permanently move isa next summer, 2012 .. but i appreciate :)
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