A Coptic priest embraces a person as victims of the deadly fire that broke out at the Abu Sifin church receive medical treatment at a hospital in Giza, Egypt, August 14, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

A Coptic priest blesses a victim of the deadly fire that broke out at the Abu Sifin church as he receives medical treatment at a hospital in Giza, Egypt, August 14, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

A Coptic priest blesses a victim of the deadly fire that broke out at the Abu Sifin church, at a hospital in Giza, Egypt, August 14, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

Mary Magdy, a Coptic Christian woman, speaks during an interview with Reuters TV, at her home in Cairo, Egypt July 7, 2022. A wave of high-profile domestic violence cases in Egypt has cast light on what critics describe as failures by authorities and the legal system in protecting at-risk women. REUTERS/Ahmed Fahmy 

Mary Magdy, a Coptic Christian woman, cooks her lunch, after an interview with Reuters TV, at her home in Cairo, Egypt July 7, 2022. A wave of high-profile domestic violence cases in Egypt has cast light on what critics describe as failures by authorities and the legal system in protecting at-risk women. REUTERS/Ahmed Fahmy 

Mary Magdy, a Coptic Christian woman, looks out of a window, after an interview with Reuters TV, at her home in Cairo, Egypt July 7, 2022. A wave of high-profile domestic violence cases in Egypt has cast light on what critics describe as failures by authorities and the legal system in protecting at-risk women. REUTERS/Ahmed Fahmy 

Mary Magdy, a Coptic Christian woman, looks out of a window, after an interview with Reuters TV, at her home in Cairo, Egypt July 7, 2022. A wave of high-profile domestic violence cases in Egypt has cast light on what critics describe as failures by authorities and the legal system in protecting at-risk women. REUTERS/Ahmed Fahmy 

Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian deacons attend the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian worshippers attend the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

An Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian man with his son attends the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

An Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian woman wearing a face mask as protection against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) attends the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

An Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian man wearing a face mask as protection against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) attends the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

An Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian girl attends with her mother the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian deacon children carry candles during the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian priests attend the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian priests and deacons attend the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian priests and deacons attend the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian priests and deacons attend the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

An Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian girl attends with her mother the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian priests and deacons attend the Easter midnight mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

A boy receives communion from an Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian priest during a Palm Sunday Mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery, in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

An Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian priest attends a Palm Sunday mass at the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery, in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A Coptic Orthodox Christian attends a Palm Sunday Mass at the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery, in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

A Coptic Orthodox Christian attends a Palm Sunday Mass at the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery, in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

A Coptic Orthodox Christian woman looks on at the start of a Palm Sunday Mass at the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery, in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Archbishop Anba Antonius, Coptic Orthodox Metropolitan of Jerusalem and the Near East, laughs as he leads a procession during Orthodox Palm Sunday, marking the start of Holy Week that ends on Easter Sunday in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City April 17, 2022. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

Coptic Orthodox Christians attend a Palm Sunday Mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery, in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

A woman takes pictures of the interior of a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

Women explore a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

A general view of a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

Women explore a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

A general view of a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

A cantor gestures from within a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

A woman climbs the stairs of a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

A woman takes pictures of the interior of a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

A woman climbs the stairs of a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

Women explore a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

Women explore a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

A cantor gestures from within a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the fourth century, and now is used to record Christian hymns because of its acoustic quality, in Saint Helena's Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi swears in Judge Boulos Fahmy as the first Coptic Christian to head the country's highest court at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, February 9, 2022. Picture taken February 9, 2022. The Egyptian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. 

Sara Kamel Zekry, uses paint to work on a mural adorned with intricate Coptic icons, in a church at the hometown village of Aazaz, in the southern Egyptian governorate of Sohag, Egypt, January 15, 2022. Picture taken January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib 

Sara Kamel Zekry and her sister Christine arrive to work on a mural adorned with intricate Coptic icons, in a church at the hometown village of Aazaz, in the southern Egyptian governorate of Sohag, Egypt, January 15, 2022. Picture taken January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib 

Sara Kamel Zekry, 25, and her sister Christine take rest after working on a mural adorned with intricate Coptic icons, in a church at the hometown village of Aazaz, in the southern Egyptian governorate of Sohag, Egypt, January 15, 2022. Picture taken January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib 

Sara Kamel Zekry, 25, and her sister Christine work on a mural adorned with intricate Coptic icons, in a church at the hometown village of Aazaz, in the southern Egyptian governorate of Sohag, Egypt, January 15, 2022. Picture taken January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib 

Christine Kamel Zekry rests after working on a mural adorned with intricate Coptic icons, in a church at the hometown village of Aazaz, in the southern Egyptian governorate of Sohag, Egypt, January 15, 2022. Picture taken January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib 

Sara Kamel Zekry and her sister Christine uses brushes and colours as they work on a mural adorned with intricate Coptic icons, in a church at the hometown village of Aazaz, in the southern Egyptian governorate of Sohag, Egypt, January 15, 2022. Picture taken January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib 

Father Tomas Zekry welcomes Sara Kamel Zekry and her sister Christine in-front of the church before they work on a mural adorned with intricate Coptic icons at the hometown village of Aazaz, in the southern Egyptian governorate of Sohag, Egypt, January 15, 2022. Picture taken January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib 

Sara Kamel Zekry, 25, and her sister Christine work on a mural adorned with intricate Coptic icons, in a church at the hometown village of Aazaz, in the southern Egyptian governorate of Sohag, Egypt, January 15, 2022. Picture taken January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib 

Sara Kamel Zekry, 25, and her sister Christine work on a mural adorned with intricate Coptic icons, in a church at the hometown village of Aazaz, in the southern Egyptian governorate of Sohag, Egypt, January 15, 2022. Picture taken January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib 

An Egyptian Coptic priest is seen as worshippers wait to book their attendance for a Palm Sunday mass via an application, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt April 24, 2021. Picture taken April 24, 2021. REUTERS/Hanaa Hbib 

Sally Toma, a Coptic Christian and former member of the Revolution Youth Coalition that grouped activists from different political factions in Egypt's 2011 uprising, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Cairo, Egypt January 20, 2021. Picture taken January 20, 2021. REUTERS/Sayed Sheasha 

Sally Toma, a Coptic Christian and former member of the Revolution Youth Coalition that grouped activists from different political factions in Egypt's 2011 uprising, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Cairo, Egypt January 20, 2021. Picture taken January 20, 2021. REUTERS/Sayed Sheasha 

A Coptic family pray during Egypt's Coptic Christmas eve Mass, as churches have been closed amid restrictions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shubra El Kheima, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

A statue of St.Mary with Baby Jesus is seen at a Coptic family's home after the prayer for Egypt's Coptic Christmas eve Mass, as churches have been closed amid restrictions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shubra El Kheima, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

Peter Elia's family watches the prayer of Egypt's Coptic Christmas eve Mass in their home, as churches have been closed amid restrictions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shubra El Kheima, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

A Coptic family pray during Egypt's Coptic Christmas eve Mass in their home, as churches have been closed amid restrictions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shubra El Kheima, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

Peter Elia's family watches a TV broadcast of the prayer during Egypt's Coptic Christmas eve Mass in their home, as churches have been closed amid restrictions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shubra El Kheima, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

Marian Nabil and her daughter Meray Peter pray during Egypt's Coptic Christmas eve Mass in their home, as churches have been closed amid restrictions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shubra El Kheima, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

Marian Nabil and her daughters, Meray and Maybel Peter, hold hands after praying during Egypt's Coptic Christmas eve Mass in their home, as churches have been closed amid restrictions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shubra El Kheima, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

A Coptic family is seen after praying during Egypt's Coptic Christmas eve Mass in their home, as churches have been closed amid restrictions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shubra El Kheima, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany