A Coptic Orthodox diocesan FAQ page on tithing, naming ten percent as the biblical minimum while answering, at length and pastorally, the case of a member who cannot afford to give it, closing with the statement that the final decision on the amount given is the member's own.
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Tier 1: an official Coptic Orthodox diocesan literature page, under the diocese of H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, read in full this pass from a Wayback Machine snapshot captured 2025-08-05 (the live page renders client-side and the standard fetch pipeline returns only its shell; a browser-user-agent curl against this snapshot returned the complete archived HTML). No article-specific publication or revision date is stated anywhere on the page itself, so publication-year is left unset rather than guessed; the page carries only the diocese's general copyright year. States in an ordered FAQ list: "Does God really want 10%?...It sounds like a lot. No, He wants 100%...The minimum is 10%." No consequence to a member's standing is stated anywhere for giving less; the page instead answers "What if I can't afford to tithe right now?" with pastoral guidance (prayer, offering time and talents instead, speaking with a priest, the possibility the church itself might help the member) and closes "There is no need or requirement to make radical adjustments; 10% is Biblical, yes, but the decision on the amount is really yours." Citation
PublisherCoptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States (suscopts.org)
URLhttps://suscopts.org/resources/literature/252/frequently-asked-questions-on-tithing-to-the-churc
Source Typechurch body
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