কিবতীয় জাতি: সংশোধিত সংস্করণের মধ্যে পার্থক্য

|ref2 = {{refn|Official population counts put the number of Copts at around 16–18% of the population, while some Coptic voices claim figures as high as 23%. While some scholars defend the soundness of the official population census (cf. E.J.Chitham, The Coptic Community in Egypt. Spatial and Social Change, Durham 1986), most scholars and international observers assume that the Christian share of Egypt's population is higher than stated by the Egyptian government. Most independent estimates fall within range between 10% and 20%,<ref>{{সংবাদ উদ্ধৃতি |শিরোনাম=Egyptian Coptic protesters freed |সংবাদপত্র=BBC |তারিখ=22 December 2004 |ইউআরএল=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4117831.stm |সংগ্রহের-তারিখ=}}</ref> for example the CIA World Factbook {{ওয়েব উদ্ধৃতি |ইউআরএল=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/eg.html |শিরোনাম=Egypt |তারিখ= |কর্ম=The World Factbook |প্রকাশক=[[CIA]] |সংগ্রহের-তারিখ=27 August 2010}}, {{ওয়েব উদ্ধৃতি |ইউআরএল=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2386 |শিরোনাম=The Copts and Their Political Implications in Egypt |লেখক১=Khairi Abaza |লেখক২=Mark Nakhla |তারিখ=25 October 2005 |কর্ম= |প্রকাশক=The Washington Institute |সংগ্রহের-তারিখ=27 August 2010}}, Encyclopædia Britannica (1985), or Macropædia (15th ed., Chicago). For a projected 83,000,000+ Egyptians in 2009, this assumption yields the above figures.<br>In 2008, [[Pope Shenouda III]] and Bishop Morkos, bishop of [[Shubra]], declared that the number of Copts in Egypt is more than 12 million. In the same year, father Morkos Aziz the prominent priest in Cairo declared that the number of Copts (inside Egypt) exceeds 16 million. {{ওয়েব উদ্ধৃতি |ইউআরএল=http://www.unitedcopts.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3073&Itemid=71 |শিরোনাম=? |তারিখ=29 October 2008 |কর্ম= |প্রকাশক=United Copts of Great Britain |সংগ্রহের-তারিখ=27 August 2010}} and {{ওয়েব উদ্ধৃতি |ইউআরএল=http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/08/28/55639.html |শিরোনাম=? |তারিখ= |কর্ম= |প্রকাশক=العربية.نت|সংগ্রহের-তারিখ=27 August 2010|আর্কাইভের-ইউআরএল=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603215320/http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/08/28/55639.html|আর্কাইভের-তারিখ=৩ জুন ২০১০|অকার্যকর-ইউআরএল=হ্যাঁ}} Furthermore, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy {{ওয়েব উদ্ধৃতি |ইউআরএল=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2386 |শিরোনাম=The Copts and Their Political Implications in Egypt |লেখক১=Khairi Abaza |লেখক২=Mark Nakhla |তারিখ=25 October 2005 |কর্ম= |প্রকাশক= |সংগ্রহের-তারিখ=27 August 2010}} Encyclopædia Britannica (1985), and Macropædia (15th ed., Chicago) estimate the percentage of Copts in Egypt to be up to 20% of the Egyptian population.}}