Christianity has a long and fruitful history in Egypt, and when witnesses reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at a Coptic church in the Cairo suburb of Zeitoun in 1968, thousands of people came to see. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what happened there and whether the apparitions were genuine.
https://mysterious.fm/283
Further Resources:
• Our Lady of Zeitoun (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Zeitoun
• Zeitoun Memorial Foundation: http://zeitoun-memorial.org/
• Coptic Orthodox Church: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church
• Oriental Orthodox Churches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches
• Common Declaration of Paul VI and Shenouda III: https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/speeches/1973/may/documents/hf_p-vi_spe_19730510_dichiarazione-comune.html
• Coptic calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_calendar
• Short Zeitoun documentary: https://youtu.be/tVU8bhbQInw
• Cynthia Nelson’s article The Virgin of Zeitoun (paywall): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/worldview/article/abs/virgin-of-zeitoun/790CA1806EB0C929371244686C0F2178
• Earthquake lights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
• Derr and Persinger’s article on the geophysical interpretation of Zeitoun (paywall): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2466/pms.1989.68.1.123
• Skeptoid podcast: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4766
• Parasociology posts, part 1: https://parasociology.blogspot.com/search/label/Egypt?updated-max=2011-12-05T11:59:00-05:00&max-results=20&start=4&by-date=false
• Parasociology posts, part 2: https://parasociology.blogspot.com/search/label/Egypt
• Mary in Islam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam