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  • Cathedral protests in Egypt won’t threaten peace, missionary says (Copts)

    05/05/2011 4:39:28 PM PDT · by bronxville · 6 replies
    CNA | Staff
    Cathedral protests in Egypt won’t threaten peace, missionary says Cairo, Egypt, May 5, 2011 / 10:02 am (CNA).- The Coptic Christians of Egypt have announced a march of one million people to protect the Cathedral of San Marco from the protests of a Muslim group... Several Coptic movements have announced a May 6 protest march to protect the cathedral in the Cairo suburb of Abbasseya. On April 29 thousands of Salafi Muslims staged a sit-in protest in front of the cathedral to seek the “release” of Kamilia Shehata, the wife of a Coptic priest who they claim converted to Islam...