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16. 300,000 Copts pray for Egypt at St. Sam'ān Monastery

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Year: 
2011
Week: 
46
Article number: 
16
Article pages: 
7
Date of source: 
November 13, 2011
Author: 
Sharīf al-Dawākhlī, Majdī Fikrī and Hānī Samīr
Reviewer: 
‘Amr al-Misrī
Article summary: 

Under the motto "Returning to God…prayers for Egypt," more than 300,000 Copts gathered in prayers held by the Egyptian Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic churches at the Saint Sam'ān al-Kharāz Monastery, in the al-Muqatam area, to pray for the nation's peace and stability.

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Archpriest Makārī Yūnān prayed for the good of Egypt's Muslims and Copts amidst passionate invocations and hymns.

Archpriest Bīshūy of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States, who flew all the way to attend the mass praying, said all Egyptians must pray to God in the same spirits.

Egyptian churches called on Copts to start prayers and fasting for three days as of November 28 coinciding with the commencement of the country's first parliamentary elections after the January 25 revolution.

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