Did you convert a few million Muslims last year?

[Apocrypha]

Originally Posted by gloryseeker

A little off topic, but what I don't get is a statement within this article:

"Father Zakaria Botros is a Coptic Orthodox Priest who was named World Magazine's 2008 "Daniel of the Year" because of his courageous witness to the Christian faith in an extraordinarily hostile environment."

In generic terms....you have the Catholics and the Protestants. The Protestants were a protest against the catholics. Why then do so many Catholics now refer to themselves as Christian...it seems to me to be a contradictory term

Copts arent Catholic. They are a branch of the Eastern church. Similar to Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, etc. They split from the RCC when Byzantine and Rome decided to become two empires back in the day.