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Al-Azhar calls for urgent meeting between Coptic and Muslim leaders

Arab World Materials 10 October 2011 14:40 (UTC +04:00)

Egypt's Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb has called members of the "Family House" initiative to discuss yesterday's Maspero attacks on Copts Al-Ahram reported

Family House is an anti-sectarian project launched by Al-Azhar following the terrorist bombing of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on New Year's Eve. The House's committee is comprised of both Muslim and Christian scholars that aim to unite Egyptians and work to find solutions to sectarianism.

According to an Al-Azhar source, today's meeting will include Muslim and Christian clergymen who will try put in place a plan to tackle the crisis that erupted yesterday when a peaceful Coptic march was attacked by security forces. The source also revealed that Pope Shenuda III, the patriarch of Egypt's Coptic Church, was invited, along with several church leaders to attend today's meeting.

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