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With Egypt still reeling from a spate of anti-Christian violence, a senior leader of the country's Coptic community has a message for the region: peaceful coexistence is possible and intolerance has no place on public television.
"We should educate those who appear in the media that nobody should touch religion," he said. "Religion is not for TV. It's for the church and the mosque. TV channels should (bring together) Muslims and Christians," Anba Ermia, General Bishop and President of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, told a group of reporters on a visit arranged by the UAE-based Muslim Council of Elders.
He was speaking at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, just beside the site of a December 11 attack by a Daesh suicide bomber that nearly 30 people - mostly women and children - dead.
Ermia held out an Egyptian program as an example of how to bridge the gap between Muslims and their Christian neighbours. Conceived in 2011, the "Family House" is devoted to training local sheikhs, imams, priests and pastors to engage in social development and dialogue, with the aim of fostering unity between the two religions. Since it's inception, more than 220 people have graduated from the program.
Recent acts of violence directed at Egypt's CoptsIn February 2017, over 100 Coptic families fled their homes in Egypt's restive North Sinai following a series of killings in El Arish. On December 11, 2016, a Daesh suicide bomber struck St. Peter and St. Paul's church, which is next to St. Mark's Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope. A total of 29 people were killed, mostly women and children. In February 2015, 21 Egyptian Coptic migrant workers were kidnapped in the Libyan city of Sirte, and later executed by Daesh militants. |
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