A Coptic scholar and activist has demanded that the Copts who lost their lives in Maspero, Cairo, should have their names and lives cited in the Coptic Synaxarium. Maged al-Raheb
WATANI International
10 October 2011
A Coptic scholar and activist has demanded that the Copts who lost their lives in Maspero, Cairo, should have their names and lives cited in the Coptic Synaxarium. Maged al-Raheb, who heads the Society for the Preservation of Coptic Heritage, said that the Synaxarium—which records the biographies of the saints and martyrs—is a living, dynamic record that did not end at any specific era. Those who lost their lives in Maspero on account of their being Christian are no less than the martyrs of the centuries of persecution.