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| Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, right, visits Coptic Pope Tawadros II, center, during Christmas Eve Mass at St. Mark's Cathedral, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015 (Photo: AP) |
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following excerpts are from ahramonline:
Egypt's
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has attended the Coptic Christmas mass
to mark the first attendance ever made by an Egyptian president to
the religious occasion.
El-Sisi
arrived at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo's Abbasiya
district during the mass and gave a brief speech before leaving
instantly.
He
said that both of Egypt's Muslims and Christians are celebrating this
occasion, asserting that they are "one entity" in the
world's eyes.
He
added that he had to come to congratulate the Coptic community and
then apologised for interrupting the mass.
Video
footage broadcast by State TV – covering the full mass – showed
crowds cheering as El-Sisi entered the Cathedral with churchmen and
saluted Pope Tawadros II.
Former
Egyptian heads of state have visited the Cathedral including Gamal
Abd El-Nasser and interim President Adly Mansour, but this is the
first time for a president to attend the mass.
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