Source: The Tennessean
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100525/NEWS01/5250345/Persecution-in-Egypt-brings-church-to-TN
These days, when incense smoke rises at St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Church, it carries with it prayers of thanks from Nashville's Egyptian community, who lost furniture and carpets to the flood instead of lives.
The Egyptian Christians live quietly, often gathering at the same places, a group persecuted in their Muslim-dominated homeland and granted asylum in the United States. In Middle Tennessee, they've grown from about 100 in the early 1990s to about 4,000 people today. One small Coptic church grew
to four.
Many local volunteers and charitable groups
learned about them earlier this month, when about 60 Egyptian families were flooded out of a single apartment complex off Murfreesboro Pike earlier this month.