Protestants first arrived in Egypt in the 1600s when Moravian missionaries from Germany travelled to the country to work with Eastern Orthodox churches.
[2] Presbyterian missionaries from the US arrived in 1854 and eventually established the Coptic Evangelical Church.
[4] In 2021, approximately 9% of Egyptians were Coptic Orthodox and 1% of people were either Catholic or Protestant.
[5] Most Protestant denominations belong to the General Evangelical Council.
There have been reports of tensions in the area of planning permission for new church buildings.