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| Egypt’s Sisi opens mega-mosque and Mideast’s largest cathedral in New Capital |
| 2019-01-07 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi inaugurated Egypt’s largest church and mosque in the New Administrative Capital on Sunday, the eve of Coptic Christmas, in a symbolic message of tolerance in the predominantly Moslem nation. Copts, the largest Christian minority in the Middle East, were due hold a midnight mass in the Cathedral of the Nativity, billed by the government as the Middle East’s largest church, a few hours after the inauguration. Coptic Christians make up an estimated 10 percent of Egypt’s nearly 100 million people. They have also increasingly been targeted in recent years by bully boyz including ISIS, which is waging an insurgency in the north of the remote Sinai Peninsula. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Apparently, President Sissi considers it critically important that Egypt’s Copts feel safe and valued, and, presumably, therefore peaceable. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-01-07 13:05 |