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Copts started Apostles Fast on Monday

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Wednesday ,07 June 2017

Copts started Apostles Fast on Monday

After celebrating the Pentecost feast, Coptic church has started fasting the Apostles Fast.

The Apostles Fast, also called the Fast of the Holy Apostles, the Fast of Peter and Paul, or sometimes St. Peters Fast, is a fast observed by Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christians. 
 
The fast begins on the second Monday after Pentecost (the day after All Saints Sunday) and continues until the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul on June 29, according to the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar.